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Viresh Kumar Nov. 11, 2016, 10:22 a.m. UTC
If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context
then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including
indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place.

Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the
thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE. The RT priority is arbitrarily set
to 50 for now.

Hackbench results on ARM Exynos, dual core A15 platform for 10
iterations:

$ hackbench -s 100 -l 100 -g 10 -f 20

Before			After
---------------------------------
1.808			1.603
1.847			1.251
2.229			1.590
1.952			1.600
1.947			1.257
1.925			1.627
2.694			1.620
1.258			1.621
1.919			1.632
1.250			1.240

Average:

1.8829			1.5041

Based on initial work by Steve Muckle.

Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Comments

Tommaso Cucinotta Nov. 11, 2016, 2:32 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi,

On 11/11/2016 11:22, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context
> then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including
> indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place.
>
> Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the
> thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE.

would you have an insight, as to what runtime/deadline/period to set, and/or
what specific timing constraints you'd like to set, just for this cpufreq
slowpath work?

> The RT priority is arbitrarily set
> to 50 for now.
[...]
> +	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };

won't you have a tunable here? (sysctl?)

Thanks,

	T.
Peter Zijlstra Nov. 11, 2016, 2:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> >+	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
> 
> won't you have a tunable here? (sysctl?)

You can use the regular userspace tools, like schedtool and chrt to set
priorities.
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Rafael J. Wysocki Nov. 11, 2016, 10:16 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context
> then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including
> indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place.
>
> Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the
> thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE. The RT priority is arbitrarily set
> to 50 for now.
>
> Hackbench results on ARM Exynos, dual core A15 platform for 10
> iterations:
>
> $ hackbench -s 100 -l 100 -g 10 -f 20
>
> Before                  After
> ---------------------------------
> 1.808                   1.603
> 1.847                   1.251
> 2.229                   1.590
> 1.952                   1.600
> 1.947                   1.257
> 1.925                   1.627
> 2.694                   1.620
> 1.258                   1.621
> 1.919                   1.632
> 1.250                   1.240
>
> Average:
>
> 1.8829                  1.5041
>
> Based on initial work by Steve Muckle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> index ccb2ab89affb..045ce0a4e6d1 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>
>  #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
> +#include <linux/kthread.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <trace/events/power.h>
>
> @@ -35,8 +36,10 @@ struct sugov_policy {
>
>         /* The next fields are only needed if fast switch cannot be used. */
>         struct irq_work irq_work;
> -       struct work_struct work;
> +       struct kthread_work work;
>         struct mutex work_lock;
> +       struct kthread_worker worker;
> +       struct task_struct *thread;
>         bool work_in_progress;
>
>         bool need_freq_update;
> @@ -291,9 +294,10 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
>         raw_spin_unlock(&sg_policy->update_lock);
>  }
>
> -static void sugov_work(struct work_struct *work)
> +static void sugov_work(struct kthread_work *work)
>  {
> -       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy = container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
> +       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy =
> +               container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);

Why this change?

>
>         mutex_lock(&sg_policy->work_lock);
>         __cpufreq_driver_target(sg_policy->policy, sg_policy->next_freq,
> @@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ static void sugov_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
>         struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
>
>         sg_policy = container_of(irq_work, struct sugov_policy, irq_work);
> -       schedule_work_on(smp_processor_id(), &sg_policy->work);
> +       kthread_queue_work(&sg_policy->worker, &sg_policy->work);
>  }
>
>  /************************** sysfs interface ************************/
> @@ -362,9 +366,23 @@ static struct kobj_type sugov_tunables_ktype = {
>
>  static struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov;
>
> +static void sugov_policy_free(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
> +{
> +       if (!sg_policy->policy->fast_switch_enabled) {
> +               kthread_flush_worker(&sg_policy->worker);
> +               kthread_stop(sg_policy->thread);
> +       }
> +
> +       mutex_destroy(&sg_policy->work_lock);
> +       kfree(sg_policy);
> +}
> +
>  static struct sugov_policy *sugov_policy_alloc(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
>         struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
> +       struct task_struct *thread;
> +       struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };

I'd define a symbol for the 50.  It's just one extra line of code ...

Thanks,
Rafael
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Saravana Kannan Nov. 12, 2016, 1:31 a.m. UTC | #4
On 11/11/2016 02:16 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>> If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context
>> then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including
>> indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place.
>>
>> Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the
>> thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE. The RT priority is arbitrarily set
>> to 50 for now.
>>
>> Hackbench results on ARM Exynos, dual core A15 platform for 10
>> iterations:
>>
>> $ hackbench -s 100 -l 100 -g 10 -f 20
>>
>> Before                  After
>> ---------------------------------
>> 1.808                   1.603
>> 1.847                   1.251
>> 2.229                   1.590
>> 1.952                   1.600
>> 1.947                   1.257
>> 1.925                   1.627
>> 2.694                   1.620
>> 1.258                   1.621
>> 1.919                   1.632
>> 1.250                   1.240
>>
>> Average:
>>
>> 1.8829                  1.5041
>>
>> Based on initial work by Steve Muckle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>   1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>> index ccb2ab89affb..045ce0a4e6d1 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>>   #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>>
>>   #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
>> +#include <linux/kthread.h>
>>   #include <linux/slab.h>
>>   #include <trace/events/power.h>
>>
>> @@ -35,8 +36,10 @@ struct sugov_policy {
>>
>>          /* The next fields are only needed if fast switch cannot be used. */
>>          struct irq_work irq_work;
>> -       struct work_struct work;
>> +       struct kthread_work work;
>>          struct mutex work_lock;
>> +       struct kthread_worker worker;
>> +       struct task_struct *thread;
>>          bool work_in_progress;
>>
>>          bool need_freq_update;
>> @@ -291,9 +294,10 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
>>          raw_spin_unlock(&sg_policy->update_lock);
>>   }
>>
>> -static void sugov_work(struct work_struct *work)
>> +static void sugov_work(struct kthread_work *work)
>>   {
>> -       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy = container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
>> +       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy =
>> +               container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
>
> Why this change?
>
>>
>>          mutex_lock(&sg_policy->work_lock);
>>          __cpufreq_driver_target(sg_policy->policy, sg_policy->next_freq,
>> @@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ static void sugov_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
>>          struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
>>
>>          sg_policy = container_of(irq_work, struct sugov_policy, irq_work);
>> -       schedule_work_on(smp_processor_id(), &sg_policy->work);
>> +       kthread_queue_work(&sg_policy->worker, &sg_policy->work);
>>   }
>>
>>   /************************** sysfs interface ************************/
>> @@ -362,9 +366,23 @@ static struct kobj_type sugov_tunables_ktype = {
>>
>>   static struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov;
>>
>> +static void sugov_policy_free(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
>> +{
>> +       if (!sg_policy->policy->fast_switch_enabled) {
>> +               kthread_flush_worker(&sg_policy->worker);
>> +               kthread_stop(sg_policy->thread);
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       mutex_destroy(&sg_policy->work_lock);
>> +       kfree(sg_policy);
>> +}
>> +
>>   static struct sugov_policy *sugov_policy_alloc(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>>   {
>>          struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
>> +       struct task_struct *thread;
>> +       struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
>
> I'd define a symbol for the 50.  It's just one extra line of code ...
>

Hold on a sec. I thought during LPC someone (Peter?) made a point that 
when RT thread run, we should bump the frequency to max? So, schedutil 
is going to trigger schedutil to bump up the frequency to max, right?

-Saravana
Viresh Kumar Nov. 12, 2016, 5:21 a.m. UTC | #5
On 11 November 2016 at 20:02, Tommaso Cucinotta
<tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> wrote:

> would you have an insight, as to what runtime/deadline/period to set, and/or
> what specific timing constraints you'd like to set, just for this cpufreq
> slowpath work?

I don't have any such figures for not at least :(
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Viresh Kumar Nov. 12, 2016, 5:22 a.m. UTC | #6
On 11 November 2016 at 20:09, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
>> >+    struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
>>
>> won't you have a tunable here? (sysctl?)
>
> You can use the regular userspace tools, like schedtool and chrt to set
> priorities.

I wanted to get some help from you on this Peter. The out of tree Interactive
governor has always used MAX_RT_PRIORITY - 1 here instead of 50.

But Steve started with 50. What do you think should the value be ?

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Viresh Kumar Nov. 12, 2016, 5:24 a.m. UTC | #7
On 12 November 2016 at 03:46, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:

>> +static void sugov_work(struct kthread_work *work)
>>  {
>> -       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy = container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
>> +       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy =
>> +               container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
>
> Why this change?

Mistake ..

>>  static struct sugov_policy *sugov_policy_alloc(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>>  {
>>         struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
>> +       struct task_struct *thread;
>> +       struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
>
> I'd define a symbol for the 50.  It's just one extra line of code ...

Sure.

As I asked in the cover letter, will you be fine if I send the same patch
for ondemand/conservative governors ?
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Viresh Kumar Nov. 12, 2016, 5:27 a.m. UTC | #8
On 12 November 2016 at 07:01, Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Hold on a sec. I thought during LPC someone (Peter?) made a point that when
> RT thread run, we should bump the frequency to max?

I wasn't there but AFAIU, this is the case we have currently for the schedutil
governor. And we (mobile world, Linaro) want to change that it doesn't work
that well for us. So perhaps it is just the opposite of what you stated.

> So, schedutil is going
> to trigger schedutil to bump up the frequency to max, right?

How is that question related to this patch ?

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Rafael J. Wysocki Nov. 13, 2016, 2:37 p.m. UTC | #9
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/2016 02:16 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context
>>> then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including
>>> indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place.
>>>
>>> Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the
>>> thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE. The RT priority is arbitrarily set
>>> to 50 for now.
>>>
>>> Hackbench results on ARM Exynos, dual core A15 platform for 10
>>> iterations:
>>>
>>> $ hackbench -s 100 -l 100 -g 10 -f 20
>>>
>>> Before                  After
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> 1.808                   1.603
>>> 1.847                   1.251
>>> 2.229                   1.590
>>> 1.952                   1.600
>>> 1.947                   1.257
>>> 1.925                   1.627
>>> 2.694                   1.620
>>> 1.258                   1.621
>>> 1.919                   1.632
>>> 1.250                   1.240
>>>
>>> Average:
>>>
>>> 1.8829                  1.5041
>>>
>>> Based on initial work by Steve Muckle.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>>   kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 62
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>>   1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>>> b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>>> index ccb2ab89affb..045ce0a4e6d1 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>>>   #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>>>
>>>   #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
>>> +#include <linux/kthread.h>
>>>   #include <linux/slab.h>
>>>   #include <trace/events/power.h>
>>>
>>> @@ -35,8 +36,10 @@ struct sugov_policy {
>>>
>>>          /* The next fields are only needed if fast switch cannot be
>>> used. */
>>>          struct irq_work irq_work;
>>> -       struct work_struct work;
>>> +       struct kthread_work work;
>>>          struct mutex work_lock;
>>> +       struct kthread_worker worker;
>>> +       struct task_struct *thread;
>>>          bool work_in_progress;
>>>
>>>          bool need_freq_update;
>>> @@ -291,9 +294,10 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct
>>> update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
>>>          raw_spin_unlock(&sg_policy->update_lock);
>>>   }
>>>
>>> -static void sugov_work(struct work_struct *work)
>>> +static void sugov_work(struct kthread_work *work)
>>>   {
>>> -       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy = container_of(work, struct
>>> sugov_policy, work);
>>> +       struct sugov_policy *sg_policy =
>>> +               container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
>>
>>
>> Why this change?
>>
>>>
>>>          mutex_lock(&sg_policy->work_lock);
>>>          __cpufreq_driver_target(sg_policy->policy, sg_policy->next_freq,
>>> @@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ static void sugov_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
>>>          struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
>>>
>>>          sg_policy = container_of(irq_work, struct sugov_policy,
>>> irq_work);
>>> -       schedule_work_on(smp_processor_id(), &sg_policy->work);
>>> +       kthread_queue_work(&sg_policy->worker, &sg_policy->work);
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   /************************** sysfs interface ************************/
>>> @@ -362,9 +366,23 @@ static struct kobj_type sugov_tunables_ktype = {
>>>
>>>   static struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov;
>>>
>>> +static void sugov_policy_free(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
>>> +{
>>> +       if (!sg_policy->policy->fast_switch_enabled) {
>>> +               kthread_flush_worker(&sg_policy->worker);
>>> +               kthread_stop(sg_policy->thread);
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       mutex_destroy(&sg_policy->work_lock);
>>> +       kfree(sg_policy);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>   static struct sugov_policy *sugov_policy_alloc(struct cpufreq_policy
>>> *policy)
>>>   {
>>>          struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
>>> +       struct task_struct *thread;
>>> +       struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
>>
>>
>> I'd define a symbol for the 50.  It's just one extra line of code ...
>>
>
> Hold on a sec. I thought during LPC someone (Peter?) made a point that when
> RT thread run, we should bump the frequency to max? So, schedutil is going
> to trigger schedutil to bump up the frequency to max, right?

No, it isn't, or at least that is unlikely.

sugov_update_commit() sets sg_policy->work_in_progress before queuing
the IRQ work and it is not cleared until the frequency changes in
sugov_work().

OTOH, sugov_should_update_freq() checks sg_policy->work_in_progress
upfront and returns false when it is set, so the governor won't see
its own worker threads run, unless I'm overlooking something highly
non-obvious.

Thanks,
Rafael
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Steve Muckle Nov. 13, 2016, 7:31 p.m. UTC | #10
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > +       struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
> 
> I'd define a symbol for the 50.  It's just one extra line of code ...

A minor point for sure, but in general what's the motivation for
defining symbols for things which are only used once? It makes it harder
to untangle and learn a piece of code IMO, having to jump to the
definitions of them to see what they are.

thanks,
Steve
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Steve Muckle Nov. 13, 2016, 7:47 p.m. UTC | #11
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:37:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hold on a sec. I thought during LPC someone (Peter?) made a point that when
> > RT thread run, we should bump the frequency to max? So, schedutil is going
> > to trigger schedutil to bump up the frequency to max, right?
> 
> No, it isn't, or at least that is unlikely.
> 
> sugov_update_commit() sets sg_policy->work_in_progress before queuing
> the IRQ work and it is not cleared until the frequency changes in
> sugov_work().
> 
> OTOH, sugov_should_update_freq() checks sg_policy->work_in_progress
> upfront and returns false when it is set, so the governor won't see
> its own worker threads run, unless I'm overlooking something highly
> non-obvious.

FWIW my intention with the original version of this patch (which I
neglected to communicate to Viresh) was that it would depend on changing
the frequency policy for RT. I had been using rt_avg. It sounds like
during LPC there were talks of using another metric.

It does appear things would work okay without that but it also seems
a bit fragile. There's the window between when the work_in_progress
gets cleared and the RT kthread yields. I have not thought through the
various scenarios there, what is possible and tested to see if it is
significant enough to impact power-sensitive platforms.

thanks,
Steve
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Rafael J. Wysocki Nov. 13, 2016, 10:44 p.m. UTC | #12
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:37:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> > Hold on a sec. I thought during LPC someone (Peter?) made a point that when
>> > RT thread run, we should bump the frequency to max? So, schedutil is going
>> > to trigger schedutil to bump up the frequency to max, right?
>>
>> No, it isn't, or at least that is unlikely.
>>
>> sugov_update_commit() sets sg_policy->work_in_progress before queuing
>> the IRQ work and it is not cleared until the frequency changes in
>> sugov_work().
>>
>> OTOH, sugov_should_update_freq() checks sg_policy->work_in_progress
>> upfront and returns false when it is set, so the governor won't see
>> its own worker threads run, unless I'm overlooking something highly
>> non-obvious.
>
> FWIW my intention with the original version of this patch (which I
> neglected to communicate to Viresh) was that it would depend on changing
> the frequency policy for RT. I had been using rt_avg. It sounds like
> during LPC there were talks of using another metric.
>
> It does appear things would work okay without that but it also seems
> a bit fragile.

Yes, it does.

To a minimum, there should be a comment regarding that in the patches.

> There's the window between when the work_in_progress
> gets cleared and the RT kthread yields. I have not thought through the
> various scenarios there, what is possible and tested to see if it is
> significant enough to impact power-sensitive platforms.

Well, me neither, to be entirely honest. :-)

That said, there is a limited number of call sites for
update_curr_rt(), where SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is passed to cpufreq
governors: dequeue_task_rt(), put_prev_task_rt(), pick_next_task_rt(),
and task_tick_rt().  I'm not sure how pick_next_task_rt() can be
relevant here at all, though, and task_tick_rt() would need to be
running exactly during the window mentioned above, so it probably is
negligible either, at least on the average.

From the quick look at the scheduler core, put_prev_task() is mostly
called for running tasks, so that case doesn't look like something to
worry about too, although it would need to be looked through in
detail.  The dequeue part I'm totally unsure about.

In any case, the clearing of work_in_progress might still be deferred
by queuing a regular (non-RT) work item to do that from the kthread
work (that will guarantee "hiding" the kthread work from the
governor), but admittedly that would be a sledgehammer of sorts (and
it might defeat the purpose of the whole exercise) ...

Thanks,
Rafael
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Viresh Kumar Nov. 14, 2016, 5:37 a.m. UTC | #13
On 12-11-16, 10:57, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12 November 2016 at 07:01, Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > Hold on a sec. I thought during LPC someone (Peter?) made a point that when
> > RT thread run, we should bump the frequency to max?
> 
> I wasn't there but AFAIU, this is the case we have currently for the schedutil
> governor. And we (mobile world, Linaro) want to change that it doesn't work
> that well for us. So perhaps it is just the opposite of what you stated.
> 
> > So, schedutil is going
> > to trigger schedutil to bump up the frequency to max, right?
> 
> How is that question related to this patch ?

Trash my last email, I failed to read yours :(
Peter Zijlstra Nov. 14, 2016, 9:22 a.m. UTC | #14
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:52:35AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 11 November 2016 at 20:09, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> >> >+    struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
> >>
> >> won't you have a tunable here? (sysctl?)
> >
> > You can use the regular userspace tools, like schedtool and chrt to set
> > priorities.
> 
> I wanted to get some help from you on this Peter. The out of tree Interactive
> governor has always used MAX_RT_PRIORITY - 1 here instead of 50.
> 
> But Steve started with 50. What do you think should the value be ?

Any static prio value is wrong (static prio assignment requires system
knowledge that the kernel doesn't and cannot have), 50 is what threaded
IRQs default too as well IIRC, so it would at least be consistent with
that.
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Viresh Kumar Nov. 14, 2016, 10:22 a.m. UTC | #15
On 14-11-16, 10:22, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Any static prio value is wrong (static prio assignment requires system
> knowledge that the kernel doesn't and cannot have), 50 is what threaded
> IRQs default too as well IIRC, so it would at least be consistent with
> that.

Yes you are correct and I have found a better way of defining the
priority in this case using that code instead of magic figure 50.

MAX_USER_RT_PRIO/2 :)
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index ccb2ab89affb..045ce0a4e6d1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
 
 #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <trace/events/power.h>
 
@@ -35,8 +36,10 @@  struct sugov_policy {
 
 	/* The next fields are only needed if fast switch cannot be used. */
 	struct irq_work irq_work;
-	struct work_struct work;
+	struct kthread_work work;
 	struct mutex work_lock;
+	struct kthread_worker worker;
+	struct task_struct *thread;
 	bool work_in_progress;
 
 	bool need_freq_update;
@@ -291,9 +294,10 @@  static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
 	raw_spin_unlock(&sg_policy->update_lock);
 }
 
-static void sugov_work(struct work_struct *work)
+static void sugov_work(struct kthread_work *work)
 {
-	struct sugov_policy *sg_policy = container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
+	struct sugov_policy *sg_policy =
+		container_of(work, struct sugov_policy, work);
 
 	mutex_lock(&sg_policy->work_lock);
 	__cpufreq_driver_target(sg_policy->policy, sg_policy->next_freq,
@@ -308,7 +312,7 @@  static void sugov_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
 	struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
 
 	sg_policy = container_of(irq_work, struct sugov_policy, irq_work);
-	schedule_work_on(smp_processor_id(), &sg_policy->work);
+	kthread_queue_work(&sg_policy->worker, &sg_policy->work);
 }
 
 /************************** sysfs interface ************************/
@@ -362,9 +366,23 @@  static struct kobj_type sugov_tunables_ktype = {
 
 static struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov;
 
+static void sugov_policy_free(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
+{
+	if (!sg_policy->policy->fast_switch_enabled) {
+		kthread_flush_worker(&sg_policy->worker);
+		kthread_stop(sg_policy->thread);
+	}
+
+	mutex_destroy(&sg_policy->work_lock);
+	kfree(sg_policy);
+}
+
 static struct sugov_policy *sugov_policy_alloc(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
 	struct sugov_policy *sg_policy;
+	struct task_struct *thread;
+	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
+	int ret;
 
 	sg_policy = kzalloc(sizeof(*sg_policy), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sg_policy)
@@ -372,16 +390,36 @@  static struct sugov_policy *sugov_policy_alloc(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 
 	sg_policy->policy = policy;
 	init_irq_work(&sg_policy->irq_work, sugov_irq_work);
-	INIT_WORK(&sg_policy->work, sugov_work);
 	mutex_init(&sg_policy->work_lock);
 	raw_spin_lock_init(&sg_policy->update_lock);
-	return sg_policy;
-}
 
-static void sugov_policy_free(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
-{
-	mutex_destroy(&sg_policy->work_lock);
-	kfree(sg_policy);
+	/* kthread only required for slow path */
+	if (policy->fast_switch_enabled)
+		return sg_policy;
+
+	kthread_init_work(&sg_policy->work, sugov_work);
+	kthread_init_worker(&sg_policy->worker);
+	thread = kthread_create(kthread_worker_fn, &sg_policy->worker,
+			"sugov:%d", cpumask_first(policy->related_cpus));
+	if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
+		mutex_destroy(&sg_policy->work_lock);
+		kfree(sg_policy);
+		pr_err("failed to create sugov thread: %ld\n", PTR_ERR(thread));
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	sg_policy->thread = thread;
+
+	ret = sched_setscheduler_nocheck(thread, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
+	if (ret) {
+		sugov_policy_free(sg_policy);
+		pr_warn("%s: failed to set SCHED_FIFO\n", __func__);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	kthread_bind_mask(thread, policy->related_cpus);
+	wake_up_process(thread);
+
+	return sg_policy;
 }
 
 static struct sugov_tunables *sugov_tunables_alloc(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
@@ -541,7 +579,7 @@  static void sugov_stop(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	synchronize_sched();
 
 	irq_work_sync(&sg_policy->irq_work);
-	cancel_work_sync(&sg_policy->work);
+	kthread_cancel_work_sync(&sg_policy->work);
 }
 
 static void sugov_limits(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)