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    sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates · d519329f
    Patrick Bellasi 提交于
    The estimated utilization of a task is currently updated every time the
    task is dequeued. However, to keep overheads under control, PELT signals
    are effectively updated at maximum once every 1ms.
    
    Thus, for really short running tasks, it can happen that their util_avg
    value has not been updates since their last enqueue.  If such tasks are
    also frequently running tasks (e.g. the kind of workload generated by
    hackbench) it can also happen that their util_avg is updated only every
    few activations.
    
    This means that updating util_est at every dequeue potentially introduces
    not necessary overheads and it's also conceptually wrong if the util_avg
    signal has never been updated during a task activation.
    
    Let's introduce a throttling mechanism on task's util_est updates
    to sync them with util_avg updates. To make the solution memory
    efficient, both in terms of space and load/store operations, we encode a
    synchronization flag into the LSB of util_est.enqueued.
    This makes util_est an even values only metric, which is still
    considered good enough for its purpose.
    The synchronization bit is (re)set by __update_load_avg_se() once the
    PELT signal of a task has been updated during its last activation.
    
    Such a throttling mechanism allows to keep under control util_est
    overheads in the wakeup hot path, thus making it a suitable mechanism
    which can be enabled also on high-intensity workload systems.
    Thus, this now switches on by default the estimation utilization
    scheduler feature.
    Suggested-by: NChris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: NPatrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
    Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
    Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
    Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
    Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
    Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-5-patrick.bellasi@arm.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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