tree 61d83aabc86474269b1399511fdd18819badd4d3
parent ae71030fd5563e029cf6d11926055cb55d64512a
author Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> 1452774695 +0000
committer Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> 1485888397 -0800

ANDROID: sched/tune: compute and keep track of per CPU boost value

When per task boosting is enabled, we could have multiple RUNNABLE tasks
which are concurrently scheduled on the same CPU but each one with a
different boost value.
For example, we could have a scenarios like this:

  Task   SchedTune CGroup   Boost Value
    T1               root            0
    T2       low-priority           10
    T3        interactive           90

In these conditions we expect a CPU to be configured according to a
proper "aggregation" of the required boost values for all the tasks
currently scheduled on this CPU.

A suitable aggregation function is the one which tracks the MAX boost
value for all the tasks RUNNABLE on a CPU. This approach allows to
always satisfy the most boost demanding task while at the same time:
 a) boosting all the concurrently scheduled tasks thus reducing
    potential co-scheduling side-effects on demanding tasks
 b) reduce the number of frequency switch requested towards SchedDVFS,
    thus being more friendly to architectures with slow frequency
    switching times

Every time a task enters/exits the RQ of a CPU the max boost value
should be updated considering all the boost groups currently "affecting"
that CPU, i.e. which have at least one RUNNABLE task currently allocated
on that CPU.

This patch introduces the required support to keep track of the boost
groups currently affecting CPUs. Thanks to the limited number of boost
groups, a small and memory efficient per-cpu array of boost groups
values (cpu_boost_groups) is used which is updated for each CPU entry by
schedtune_boostgroup_update() but only when a schedtune CGroup boost
value is updated. However, this is expected to be a rare operation,
perhaps done just one time at system boot time.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Oportus <andresoportus@google.com>