sched/tune: add sysctl interface to define a boost value
The current (CFS) scheduler implementation does not allow "to boost"
tasks performance by running them at a higher OPP compared to the
minimum required to meet their workload demands.
To support tasks performance boosting the scheduler should provide a
"knob" which allows to tune how much the system is going to be optimised
for energy efficiency vs performance.
This patch is the first of a series which provides a simple interface to
define a tuning knob. One system-wide "boost" tunable is exposed via:
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_cfs_boost
which can be configured in the range [0..100], to define a percentage
where:
- 0% boost requires to operate in "standard" mode by scheduling
tasks at the minimum capacities required by the workload demand
- 100% boost requires to push at maximum the task performances,
"regardless" of the incurred energy consumption
A boost value in between these two boundaries is used to bias the
power/performance trade-off, the higher the boost value the more the
scheduler is biased toward performance boosting instead of energy
efficiency.
Change-Id: I59a41725e2d8f9238a61dfb0c909071b53560fc0
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Git-commit: 63c8fad2b06805ef88f1220551289f0a3c3529f1
Git-repo: https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4
Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 419db34..ee97c21 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1275,6 +1275,32 @@
desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
upon task session.
+config SCHED_TUNE
+ bool "Boosting for CFS tasks (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ help
+ This option enables the system-wide support for task boosting.
+ When this support is enabled a new sysctl interface is exposed to
+ userspace via:
+ /proc/sys/kernel/sched_cfs_boost
+ which allows to set a system-wide boost value in range [0..100].
+
+ The currently boosting strategy is implemented in such a way that:
+ - a 0% boost value requires to operate in "standard" mode by
+ scheduling all tasks at the minimum capacities required by their
+ workload demand
+ - a 100% boost value requires to push at maximum the task
+ performances, "regardless" of the incurred energy consumption
+
+ A boost value in between these two boundaries is used to bias the
+ power/performance trade-off, the higher the boost value the more the
+ scheduler is biased toward performance boosting instead of energy
+ efficiency.
+
+ Since this support exposes a single system-wide knob, the specified
+ boost value is applied to all (CFS) tasks in the system.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
depends on SYSFS