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[v6,2/2] Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs

Message ID 20200706142839.26629-3-qais.yousef@arm.com (mailing list archive)
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Series sched/uclamp: new sysctl for default RT boost value | expand

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Qais Yousef July 6, 2020, 2:28 p.m. UTC
Uclamp exposes 3 sysctl knobs:

	* sched_util_clamp_min
	* sched_util_clamp_max
	* sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default

Document them in sysctl/kernel.rst.

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 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 83acf5025488..55bf6b4de4ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1062,6 +1062,60 @@  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 1024, which is the maximum possible value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.min value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_min, i.e., it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_min].
+
+sched_util_clamp_max:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *maximum* utilization.
+
+Default value is 1024, which is the maximum possible value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.max value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_max, i.e., it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_max].
+
+sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default:
+================================
+
+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
+heterogeneous systems).
+
+Uclamp achieves this by setting the requested uclamp.min of all RT tasks to
+1024 by default, which effectively boosts the tasks to run at the highest
+frequency and biases 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 range constraint imposed by sched_util_clamp_min
+defined above.
+
+For example if
+
+	sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default = 800
+	sched_util_clamp_min = 600
+
+Then the boost will be clamped to 600 because 800 is outside of the permissible
+range of [0:600]. This could happen for instance if a powersave mode will
+restrict all boosts temporarily by modifying sched_util_clamp_min. As soon as
+this restriction is lifted, the requested sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default
+will take effect.
 
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