From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC89C433B4 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEA661107 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235523AbhDPNCK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:02:10 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:41002 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233259AbhDPNCH (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:02:07 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3358C11B3; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 06:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e113131-lin.cambridge.arm.com (e113131-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.195.76]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EF0823F85F; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 06:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Beata Michalska To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, valentin.schneider@arm.com, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Rework CPU capacity asymmetry detection Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:01:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1618578085-29584-1-git-send-email-beata.michalska@arm.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As of now, the asym_cpu_capacity_level will try to locate the lowest topology level where the highest available CPU capacity is being visible to all CPUs. This works perfectly fine for most of existing asymmetric designs out there, though for some possible and completely valid setups, combining different cpu microarchitectures within clusters, this might not be the best approach, resulting in pointing at a level, at which some of the domains might not see any asymmetry at all. This could be problematic for misfit migration and/or energy aware placement. And as such, for affected platforms it might result in custom changes to wake-up and CPU selection paths. The following patches rework how the asymmetric detection is being carried out, pinning the asymmetric topology level to the lowest one, where full range of CPU capacities is visible to all CPUs within given sched domain. The asym_cpu_capacity_level will also keep track of those levels where any scope of asymmetry is being observed, to denote corresponding sched domains with the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag and to enable misfit migration for those. In order to distinguish the sched domains with partial vs full range of CPU capacity asymmetry, new sched domain flag has been introduced: SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL. The overall idea of changing the asymmetry detection has been suggested earlier by Valentin Schneider Verified on (mostly): - QEMU (version 4.2.1) with variants of possible asymmetric topologies - machine: virt - modifying the device-tree 'cpus' node for virt machine: qemu-system-aarch64 -kernel $KERNEL_IMG -drive format=qcow2,file=$IMAGE -append 'root=/dev/vda earlycon console=ttyAMA0 sched_debug loglevel=15 kmemleak=on' -m 2G --nographic -cpu cortex-a57 -machine virt -smp cores=6 -machine dumpdtb=$CUSTOM_DTB.dtb $KERNEL_PATH/scripts/dtc/dtc -I dtb -O dts $CUSTOM_DTB.dts > $CUSTOM_DTB.dtb (modify the dts) $KERNEL_PATH/scripts/dtc/dtc -I dts -O dtb $CUSTOM_DTB.dts > $CUSTOM_DTB.dtb qemu-system-aarch64 -kernel $KERNEL_IMG -drive format=qcow2,file=$IMAGE -append 'root=/dev/vda earlycon console=ttyAMA0 sched_debug loglevel=15 kmemleak=on' -m 2G --nographic -cpu cortex-a57 -machine virt -smp cores=6 -machine dtb=$CUSTOM_DTB.dtb Beata Michalska (3): sched/core: Introduce SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL sched_domain flag sched/topology: Rework CPU capacity asymmetry detection sched/doc: Update the CPU capacity asymmetry bits Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst | 6 +- Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst | 2 +- include/linux/sched/sd_flags.h | 10 + kernel/sched/topology.c | 339 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 4 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4