Re: [PATCH v6 03/16] sched/core: uclamp: Map TASK's clamp values into CPU's clamp buckets

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
	Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/16] sched/core: uclamp: Map TASK's clamp values into CPU's clamp buckets
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:05:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190121150507.GJ27931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190115101513.2822-4-patrick.bellasi@arm.com>

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:15:00AM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> +static inline unsigned int uclamp_bucket_value(unsigned int clamp_value)
> +{
> +#define UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA (SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE / CONFIG_UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT)
> +#define UCLAMP_BUCKET_UPPER (UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA * CONFIG_UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT)
> +
> +	if (clamp_value >= UCLAMP_BUCKET_UPPER)
> +		return SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE;
> +
> +	return UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA * (clamp_value / UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA);
> +}

> +static void uclamp_bucket_inc(struct uclamp_se *uc_se, unsigned int clamp_id,
> +			      unsigned int clamp_value)
> +{
> +	union uclamp_map *uc_maps = &uclamp_maps[clamp_id][0];
> +	unsigned int prev_bucket_id = uc_se->bucket_id;
> +	union uclamp_map uc_map_old, uc_map_new;
> +	unsigned int free_bucket_id;
> +	unsigned int bucket_value;
> +	unsigned int bucket_id;
> +
> +	bucket_value = uclamp_bucket_value(clamp_value);

Aahh!!

So why don't you do:

	bucket_id = clamp_value / UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA;
	bucket_value = bucket_id * UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA;

> +	do {
> +		/* Find the bucket_id of an already mapped clamp bucket... */
> +		free_bucket_id = UCLAMP_BUCKETS;
> +		for (bucket_id = 0; bucket_id < UCLAMP_BUCKETS; ++bucket_id) {
> +			uc_map_old.data = atomic_long_read(&uc_maps[bucket_id].adata);
> +			if (free_bucket_id == UCLAMP_BUCKETS && !uc_map_old.se_count)
> +				free_bucket_id = bucket_id;
> +			if (uc_map_old.value == bucket_value)
> +				break;
> +		}
> +
> +		/* ... or allocate a new clamp bucket */
> +		if (bucket_id >= UCLAMP_BUCKETS) {
> +			/*
> +			 * A valid clamp bucket must always be available.
> +			 * If we cannot find one: refcounting is broken and we
> +			 * warn once. The sched_entity will be tracked in the
> +			 * fast-path using its previous clamp bucket, or not
> +			 * tracked at all if not yet mapped (i.e. it's new).
> +			 */
> +			if (unlikely(free_bucket_id == UCLAMP_BUCKETS)) {
> +				SCHED_WARN_ON(free_bucket_id == UCLAMP_BUCKETS);
> +				return;
> +			}
> +			bucket_id = free_bucket_id;
> +			uc_map_old.data = atomic_long_read(&uc_maps[bucket_id].adata);
> +		}

And then skip all this?

> +
> +		uc_map_new.se_count = uc_map_old.se_count + 1;
> +		uc_map_new.value = bucket_value;
> +
> +	} while (!atomic_long_try_cmpxchg(&uc_maps[bucket_id].adata,
> +					  &uc_map_old.data, uc_map_new.data));
> +
> +	uc_se->value = clamp_value;
> +	uc_se->bucket_id = bucket_id;
> +
> +	if (uc_se->mapped)
> +		uclamp_bucket_dec(clamp_id, prev_bucket_id);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Task's sched_entity are refcounted in the fast-path only when they
> +	 * have got a valid clamp_bucket assigned.
> +	 */
> +	uc_se->mapped = true;
> +}