sched/fair: Add sched_group per-CPU max capacity
authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Wed, 4 Jul 2018 10:17:41 +0000 (11:17 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:05:49 +0000 (11:05 +0200)
commite3d6d0cb66f2351cbfd09fbae04eb9804afe9577
tree6524c337de8430a84cbc13bc0156a51e7fb36735
parent3b1baa6496e6b7ad016342a9d256bdfb072ce902
sched/fair: Add sched_group per-CPU max capacity

The current sg->min_capacity tracks the lowest per-CPU compute capacity
available in the sched_group when rt/irq pressure is taken into account.
Minimum capacity isn't the ideal metric for tracking if a sched_group
needs offloading to another sched_group for some scenarios, e.g. a
sched_group with multiple CPUs if only one is under heavy pressure.
Tracking maximum capacity isn't perfect either but a better choice for
some situations as it indicates that the sched_group definitely compute
capacity constrained either due to rt/irq pressure on all CPUs or
asymmetric CPU capacities (e.g. big.LITTLE).

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530699470-29808-4-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/sched.h
kernel/sched/topology.c