Capacity Awareness refers to the fact that on heterogeneous systems
(like Arm big.LITTLE), the capacity of the CPUs is not uniform, hence
when placing tasks we need to be aware of this difference of CPU
capacities.
In such scenarios we want to ensure that the selected CPU has enough
capacity to meet the requirement of the running task. Enough capacity
means here that capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= task.requirement.
The definition of task.requirement is dependent on the scheduling class.
For CFS, utilization is used to select a CPU that has >= capacity value
than the cfs_task.util.
capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= cfs_task.util
DL isn't capacity aware at the moment but can make use of the bandwidth
reservation to implement that in a similar manner CFS uses utilization.
The following patchset implements that:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190506044836.2914-1-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it/
capacity_orig_of(cpu)/SCHED_CAPACITY >= dl_deadline/dl_runtime
For RT we don't have a per task utilization signal and we lack any
information in general about what performance requirement the RT task
needs. But with the introduction of uclamp, RT tasks can now control
that by setting uclamp_min to guarantee a minimum performance point.
ATM the uclamp value are only used for frequency selection; but on
heterogeneous systems this is not enough and we need to ensure that the
capacity of the CPU is >= uclamp_min. Which is what implemented here.
capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= rt_task.uclamp_min
Note that by default uclamp.min is 1024, which means that RT tasks will
always be biased towards the big CPUs, which make for a better more
predictable behavior for the default case.
Must stress that the bias acts as a hint rather than a definite
placement strategy. For example, if all big cores are busy executing
other RT tasks we can't guarantee that a new RT task will be placed
there.
On non-heterogeneous systems the original behavior of RT should be
retained. Similarly if uclamp is not selected in the config.
[ mingo: Minor edits to comments. ]
Bug: 120440300
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191009104611.15363-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 804d402fb6https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git)
[Qais: resolved minor conflict in kernel/sched/cpupri.c]
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ifc9da1c47de1aec9b4d87be2614e4c8968366900
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
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