linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] sched: cpufreq: ignore SMT when determining max cpu capacity

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:40:47 -0700
From:   Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@...aro.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>,
        Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
        Steve Muckle <smuckle@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sched: cpufreq: ignore SMT when determining max cpu capacity

PELT does not consider SMT when scaling its utilization values via
arch_scale_cpu_capacity(). The value in rq->cpu_capacity_orig does
take SMT into consideration though and therefore may be smaller than
the utilization reported by PELT.

On an Intel i7-3630QM for example rq->cpu_capacity_orig is 589 but
util_avg scales up to 1024. This means that a 50% utilized CPU will show
up in schedutil as ~86% busy.

Fix this by using the same CPU scaling value in schedutil as that which
is used by PELT.

Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index 60d985f4dc47..cb8a77b1ef1b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ static unsigned int get_next_freq(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu, unsigned long util,
 static void sugov_get_util(unsigned long *util, unsigned long *max)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = this_rq();
-	unsigned long cfs_max = rq->cpu_capacity_orig;
+	unsigned long cfs_max;
+
+	cfs_max = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, smp_processor_id());
 
 	*util = min(rq->cfs.avg.util_avg, cfs_max);
 	*max = cfs_max;
-- 
2.7.3