The Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS) estimates the energy consumption
of placing a task on different CPUs. The goal is to minimize this
energy consumption. Estimating the energy of different task placements
is increasingly complex with the size of the platform.
To avoid having a slow wake-up path, EAS is only enabled if this
complexity is low enough.
The current complexity limit was set in:
b68a4c0dba ("sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms")
... based on the first implementation of EAS, which was re-computing
the power of the whole platform for each task placement scenario, see:
390031e4c3 ("sched/fair: Introduce an energy estimation helper function")
... but the complexity of EAS was reduced in:
eb92692b25 ("sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups")
... and find_energy_efficient_cpu() (feec) algorithm was updated in:
3e8c6c9aac ("sched/fair: Remove task_util from effective utilization in feec()")
find_energy_efficient_cpu() (feec) is now doing:
feec()
\_ for_each_pd(pd) [0]
// get max_spare_cap_cpu and compute_prev_delta
\_ for_each_cpu(pd) [1]
\_ eenv_pd_busy_time(pd) [2]
\_ for_each_cpu(pd)
// compute_energy(pd) without the task
\_ eenv_pd_max_util(pd, -1) [3.0]
\_ for_each_cpu(pd)
\_ em_cpu_energy(pd, -1)
\_ for_each_ps(pd)
// compute_energy(pd) with the task on prev_cpu
\_ eenv_pd_max_util(pd, prev_cpu) [3.1]
\_ for_each_cpu(pd)
\_ em_cpu_energy(pd, prev_cpu)
\_ for_each_ps(pd)
// compute_energy(pd) with the task on max_spare_cap_cpu
\_ eenv_pd_max_util(pd, max_spare_cap_cpu) [3.2]
\_ for_each_cpu(pd)
\_ em_cpu_energy(pd, max_spare_cap_cpu)
\_ for_each_ps(pd)
[3.1] happens only once since prev_cpu is unique. With the same
definitions for nr_pd, nr_cpus and nr_ps, the complexity is of:
nr_pd * (2 * [nr_cpus in pd] + 2 * ([nr_cpus in pd] + [nr_ps in pd]))
+ ([nr_cpus in pd] + [nr_ps in pd])
[0] * ( [1] + [2] + [3.0] + [3.2] )
+ [3.1]
= nr_pd * (4 * [nr_cpus in pd] + 2 * [nr_ps in pd])
+ [nr_cpus in prev pd] + nr_ps
The complexity limit was set to 2048 in:
b68a4c0dba ("sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms")
... to make "EAS usable up to 16 CPUs with per-CPU DVFS and less than 8
performance states each". For the same platform, the complexity would
actually be of:
16 * (4 + 2 * 7) + 1 + 7 = 296
Since the EAS complexity was greatly reduced since the limit was
introduced, bigger platforms can handle EAS.
For instance, a platform with 112 CPUs with 7 performance states
each would not reach it:
112 * (4 + 2 * 7) + 1 + 7 = 2024
To reflect this improvement in the underlying EAS code, remove
the EAS complexity check.
Note that a limit on the number of CPUs still holds against
EM_MAX_NUM_CPUS to avoid overflows during the energy estimation.
[ mingo: Updates to the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009060037.170765-2-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com
The Energy Model (EM) can store power values in milli-Watts or in abstract
scale. This might cause issues in the subsystems which use the EM for
estimating the device power, such as:
- mixing of different scales in a subsystem which uses multiple
(cooling) devices (e.g. thermal Intelligent Power Allocation (IPA))
- assuming that energy [milli-Joules] can be derived from the EM power
values which might not be possible since the power scale doesn't have
to be in milli-Watts
To avoid misconfiguration add the requisite documentation to the EM and
related subsystems: EAS and IPA.
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst ought to be the canonical place
to blabber about SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY, so remove its explanation from
sched-energy.rst and point to sched-capacity.rst instead.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731192016.7484-4-valentin.schneider@arm.com
In order to prepare to add them to the Kernel API book,
convert the files to ReST format.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
