ANDROID: cpufreq: schedutil: add up/down frequency transition rate limits
The rate-limit tunable in the schedutil governor applies to transitions
to both lower and higher frequencies. On several platforms it is not the
ideal tunable though, as it is difficult to get best power/performance
figures using the same limit in both directions.
It is common on mobile platforms with demanding user interfaces to want
to increase frequency rapidly for example but decrease slowly.
One of the example can be a case where we have short busy periods
followed by similar or longer idle periods. If we keep the rate-limit
high enough, we will not go to higher frequencies soon enough. On the
other hand, if we keep it too low, we will have too many frequency
transitions, as we will always reduce the frequency after the busy
period.
It would be very useful if we can set low rate-limit while increasing
the frequency (so that we can respond to the short busy periods quickly)
and high rate-limit while decreasing frequency (so that we don't reduce
the frequency immediately after the short busy period and that may avoid
frequency transitions before the next busy period).
Implement separate up/down transition rate limits. Note that the
governor avoids frequency recalculations for a period equal to minimum
of up and down rate-limit. A global mutex is also defined to protect
updates to min_rate_limit_us via two separate sysfs files.
Note that this wouldn't change behavior of the schedutil governor for
the platforms which wish to keep same values for both up and down rate
limits.
This is tested with the rt-app [1] on ARM Exynos, dual A15 processor
platform.
Testcase: Run a SCHED_OTHER thread on CPU0 which will emulate work-load
for X ms of busy period out of the total period of Y ms, i.e. Y - X ms
of idle period. The values of X/Y taken were: 20/40, 20/50, 20/70, i.e
idle periods of 20, 30 and 50 ms respectively. These were tested against
values of up/down rate limits as: 10/10 ms and 10/40 ms.
For every test we noticed a performance increase of 5-10% with the
schedutil governor, which was very much expected.
[Viresh]: Simplified user interface and introduced min_rate_limit_us +
mutex, rewrote commit log and included test results.
[1] https://github.com/scheduler-tools/rt-app/
Change-Id: I18720a83855b196b8e21dcdc8deae79131635b84
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
(applied from https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147936011103832&w=2)
[trivial adaptations]
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
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