From: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
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Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@matbug.net>,
Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:30:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200403123020.13897-2-qais.yousef@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200403123020.13897-1-qais.yousef@arm.com>
Uclamp exposes 3 sysctl knobs:
* sched_util_clamp_min
* sched_util_clamp_max
* sched_rt_default_util_clamp_min
Document them in sysctl/kernel.rst.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index def074807cee..5e974cd493b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -935,6 +935,53 @@ Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature
incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is
useful for debugging and performance tuning.
+sched_util_clamp_min:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *minimum* utilization.
+
+Default value is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (1024), which is the maximum possible
+value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.min value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_min, ie: it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_min].
+
+sched_util_clamp_max:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *maximum* utilization.
+
+Default value is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (1024), which is the maximum possible
+value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.max value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_max, ie: it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_max].
+
+sched_rt_default_util_clamp_min:
+================================
+
+By default Linux is tuned for performance. Which means that RT tasks always run
+at the highest frequency and most capable (highest capacity) CPU (in
+hetergenous systems).
+
+Uclamp achieves this by setting the requested uclamp.min of all RT tasks to
+SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (1024) by default. Which effectively boosts the tasks to
+run at the highest frequency and bias them to run on the biggest CPU.
+
+This knob allows admins to change the default behavior when uclamp is being
+used. In battery powered devices particularly, running at the maximum
+capacity and frequency will increase energy consumption and shorten the battery
+life.
+
+This knob is only effective for RT tasks which the user hasn't modified their
+requested uclamp.min value via sched_setattr() syscall.
+
+This knob will not escape the constraint imposed by sched_util_clamp_min
+defined above.
+
+Any modification is applied lazily on the next RT task wakeup.
sg-big-buff:
============
--
2.17.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-03 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-03 12:30 [PATCH 1/2] sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value Qais Yousef
2020-04-03 12:30 ` Qais Yousef [this message]
2020-04-14 18:21 ` Patrick Bellasi
2020-04-15 7:46 ` Patrick Bellasi
2020-04-20 15:04 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-20 8:24 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-20 15:19 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-21 0:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-21 11:16 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-21 11:23 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-20 14:50 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-15 10:11 ` Quentin Perret
2020-04-20 15:08 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-20 8:29 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-20 15:13 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-21 11:18 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-21 11:27 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-22 10:59 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-22 13:13 ` Qais Yousef
2020-05-11 15:40 Qais Yousef
2020-05-11 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs Qais Yousef
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