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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>,
	"Pandruvada, Srinivas" <srinivas.pandruvada@intel.com>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28] PM: QoS: Get rid of unuseful code and rework CPU latency QoS interface
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:42:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hm2vVbM5dXGitvvUrWoZXZXXaJ+P3x38BjHRukZKgB3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgjegh20.fsf@riseup.net>

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 1:14 AM Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:34 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:

[cut]

> >
> > I think that your use case is almost equivalent to the thermal
> > pressure one, so you'd want to limit the max and so that would be
> > something similar to store_max_perf_pct() with its input side hooked
> > up to a QoS list.
> >
> > But it looks like that QoS list would rather be of a "reservation"
> > type, so a request added to it would mean something like "leave this
> > fraction of power that appears to be available to the CPU subsystem
> > unused, because I need it for a different purpose".  And in principle
> > there might be multiple requests in there at the same time and those
> > "reservations" would add up.  So that would be a kind of "limited sum"
> > QoS type which wasn't even there before my changes.
> >
> > A user of that QoS list might then do something like
> >
> > ret = cpu_power_reserve_add(1, 4);
> >
> > meaning that it wants 25% of the "potential" CPU power to be not
> > utilized by CPU performance scaling and that could affect the
> > scheduler through load modifications (kind of along the thermal
> > pressure patchset discussed some time ago) and HWP (as well as the
> > non-HWP intel_pstate by preventing turbo frequencies from being used
> > etc).
>
> The problems with this are the same as with the per-CPU frequency QoS
> approach: How does the device driver know what the appropriate fraction
> of CPU power is?

Of course it doesn't know and it may never know exactly, but it may guess.

Also, it may set up a feedback loop: request an aggressive
reservation, run for a while, measure something and refine if there's
headroom.  Then repeat.

> Depending on the instantaneous behavior of the
> workload it might take 1% or 95% of the CPU power in order to keep the
> IO device busy.  Each user of this would need to monitor the performance
> of every CPU in the system and update the constraints on each of them
> periodically (whether or not they're talking to that IO device, which
> would possibly negatively impact the latency of unrelated applications
> running on other CPUs, unless we're willing to race with the task
> scheduler).

No, it just needs to measure a signal representing how much power *it*
gets and decide whether or not it can let the CPU subsystem use more
power.

> A solution based on utilization clamps (with some
> extensions) sounds more future-proof to me honestly.

Except that it would be rather hard to connect it to something like
RAPL, which should be quite straightforward with the approach I'm
talking about.

The problem with all scheduler-based ways, again, is that there is no
direct connection between the scheduler and HWP, or even with whatever
the processor does with the P-states in the turbo range.  If any
P-state in the turbo range is requested, the processor has a license
to use whatever P-state it wants, so this pretty much means allowing
it to use as much power as it can.

So in the first place, if you want to limit the use of power in the
CPU subsystem through frequency control alone, you need to prevent it
from using turbo P-states at all.  However, with RAPL you can just
limit power which may still allow some (but not all) turbo P-states to
be used.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-11 22:51 [PATCH 00/28] PM: QoS: Get rid of unuseful code and rework CPU latency QoS interface Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 22:52 ` [PATCH 01/28] PM: QoS: Drop debugfs interface Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 22:58 ` [PATCH 02/28] PM: QoS: Drop pm_qos_update_request_timeout() Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 22:58 ` [PATCH 03/28] PM: QoS: Drop the PM_QOS_SUM QoS type Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 22:58 ` [PATCH 04/28] PM: QoS: Clean up pm_qos_update_target() and pm_qos_update_flags() Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 22:58 ` [PATCH 05/28] PM: QoS: Clean up pm_qos_read_value() and pm_qos_get/set_value() Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 22:59 ` [PATCH 06/28] PM: QoS: Drop iterations over global QoS classes Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:00 ` [PATCH 07/28] PM: QoS: Clean up misc device file operations Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:01 ` [PATCH 08/28] PM: QoS: Redefine struct pm_qos_request and drop struct pm_qos_object Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:02 ` [PATCH 09/28] PM: QoS: Drop PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY notifier chain Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:04 ` [PATCH 10/28] PM: QoS: Rename things related to the CPU latency QoS Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 10:34   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 19:13   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-11 23:06 ` [PATCH 11/28] PM: QoS: Simplify definitions of CPU latency QoS trace events Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:07 ` [PATCH 12/28] PM: QoS: Adjust pm_qos_request() signature and reorder pm_qos.h Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:07 ` [PATCH 13/28] PM: QoS: Add CPU latency QoS API wrappers Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:08 ` [PATCH 14/28] cpuidle: Call cpu_latency_qos_limit() instead of pm_qos_request() Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:10 ` [PATCH 15/28] x86: platform: iosf_mbi: Call cpu_latency_qos_*() instead of pm_qos_*() Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 10:14   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-11 23:12 ` [PATCH 16/28] drm: i915: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 10:32   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-14  7:42   ` Jani Nikula
2020-02-11 23:13 ` [PATCH 17/28] drivers: hsi: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-13 21:06   ` Sebastian Reichel
2020-02-11 23:17 ` [PATCH 18/28] drivers: media: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12  5:37   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-02-11 23:21 ` [PATCH 19/28] drivers: mmc: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:24 ` [PATCH 20/28] drivers: net: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:48   ` Jeff Kirsher
2020-02-12  5:49   ` Kalle Valo
2020-02-11 23:26 ` [PATCH 21/28] drivers: spi: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:27 ` [PATCH 22/28] drivers: tty: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 10:35   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 19:13   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-11 23:28 ` [PATCH 23/28] drivers: usb: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 18:38   ` Greg KH
2020-02-18  8:03     ` Peter Chen
2020-02-18  8:08       ` Greg KH
2020-02-18  8:11         ` Peter Chen
2020-02-19  1:09   ` Peter Chen
2020-02-11 23:34 ` [PATCH 24/28] sound: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 10:08   ` Mark Brown
2020-02-12 10:16     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 10:21       ` Takashi Iwai
2020-02-12 10:18   ` Mark Brown
2020-02-11 23:35 ` [PATCH 25/28] PM: QoS: Drop PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY and rename related functions Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:35 ` [PATCH 26/28] PM: QoS: Update file information comments Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:36 ` [PATCH 27/28] Documentation: PM: QoS: Update to reflect previous code changes Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-11 23:37 ` [PATCH 28/28] PM: QoS: Make CPU latency QoS depend on CONFIG_CPU_IDLE Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12  8:37 ` [PATCH 00/28] PM: QoS: Get rid of unuseful code and rework CPU latency QoS interface Ulf Hansson
2020-02-12  9:17   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12  9:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-12 23:32 ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-13  0:16   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-13  0:37     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-13  8:10       ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-13 11:38         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-21 22:10           ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-24  0:29             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-24 21:06               ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-13  8:07     ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-13 11:34       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-13 16:35         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-14  0:15           ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-14 10:42             ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2020-02-14 20:32               ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-24 10:39                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-24 21:16                   ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-14  0:14         ` Francisco Jerez
2020-02-13  7:10 ` Amit Kucheria
2020-02-13 10:17   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-13 10:22     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-13 10:49     ` Amit Kucheria
2020-02-13 11:36       ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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