cpufreq: Max freq invariant scheduler load-tracking and cpu capacity support
authorDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:47:48 +0000 (16:47 +0100)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:18:50 +0000 (14:48 +0530)
commit74a07a6950cc5b1cf12a8e602d8e5b572906376b
tree116896d4eecac1533e6ffad20cab5adf091f9002
parent10c505ffd2f0bf6b23e2c02f1180534487f74d6f
cpufreq: Max freq invariant scheduler load-tracking and cpu capacity support

Implements cpufreq_scale_max_freq_capacity() to provide the scheduler
with a maximum frequency scaling correction factor for more accurate
load-tracking and cpu capacity handling by being able to deal with
frequency capping.

This scaling factor describes the influence of running a cpu with a
current maximum frequency lower than the absolute possible maximum
frequency on load tracking and cpu capacity.

The factor is:

current_max_freq(cpu) << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT / max_freq(cpu)

In fact, max_freq_scale should be a struct cpufreq_policy data member.
But this would require that the scheduler hot path (__update_load_avg())
would have to grab the cpufreq lock. This can be avoided by using per-cpu
data initialized to SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE for max_freq_scale.

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
include/linux/cpufreq.h