Re: [PATCH 1/7] sched/core: uclamp: add CPU clamp groups accounting

[Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>]

On 13-Apr 11:46, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 05:56:09PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> > +static inline void uclamp_cpu_get(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int clamp_id)
> > +{
> > +	struct uclamp_cpu *uc_cpu = &cpu_rq(cpu)->uclamp[clamp_id];
> > +	int clamp_value;
> > +	int group_id;
> > +
> > +	/* Get task's specific clamp value */
> > +	clamp_value = p->uclamp[clamp_id].value;
> > +	group_id = p->uclamp[clamp_id].group_id;
> > +
> > +	/* No task specific clamp values: nothing to do */
> > +	if (group_id == UCLAMP_NONE)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	/* Increment the current group_id */
> 
> That I think qualifies being called a bad comment.

my bad :/

> > +	uc_cpu->group[group_id].tasks += 1;
> > +
> > +	/* Mark task as enqueued for this clamp index */
> > +	p->uclamp_group_id[clamp_id] = group_id;
> 
> Why exactly do we need this? we got group_id from @p in the first place.

The idea is to back-annotate on the task the group in which it has
been refcounted. That allows a much simpler and less racy refcount
decrements at dequeue/migration time.

That's also why we have a single call-back, uclamp_task_update(),
for both enqueue/dequeue. Depending on the check performed by
uclamp_task_affects() we know if we have to get or put the refcounter.

> I suspect this is because when we update p->uclamp[], we don't update
> this active value (when needed), is that worth it?

What you mean by "we don't update this active value"?

> > +	/*
> > +	 * If this is the new max utilization clamp value, then we can update
> > +	 * straight away the CPU clamp value. Otherwise, the current CPU clamp
> > +	 * value is still valid and we are done.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (uc_cpu->value < clamp_value)
> > +		uc_cpu->value = clamp_value;
> > +}

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Patrick Bellasi