linux-kernel - Re: [RFCv4 PATCH 00/34] sched: Energy cost model for energy-aware scheduling

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 14:47:53 +0100
From:	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
To:	Sai Gurrappadi <sgurrappadi@...dia.com>
Cc:	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
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	Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>,
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	Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFCv4 PATCH 00/34] sched: Energy cost model for energy-aware
 scheduling

Hi Sai,

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:07:26PM +0100, Sai Gurrappadi wrote:
> 
> On 05/12/2015 12:38 PM, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> > Test results for ARM TC2 (2xA15+3xA7) with cpufreq enabled:
> > 
> > sysbench: Single task running for 3 seconds.
> > rt-app [4]: mp3 playback use-case model
> > rt-app [4]: 5 ~[6,13,19,25,31,38,44,50]% periodic (2ms) tasks
> > 
> > Note: % is relative to the capacity of the fastest cpu at the highest
> > frequency, i.e. the more busy ones do not fit on little cpus.
> > 
> > A newer version of rt-app was used which supports a better but slightly
> > different way of modelling the periodic tasks. Numbers are therefore
> > _not_ comparable to the RFCv3 numbers.
> > 
> > Average numbers for 20 runs per test (ARM TC2).
> > 
> > Energy		Mainline	EAS		noEAS
> > 
> > sysbench	100		251*		227*
> > 
> > rt-app mp3	100		63		111
> > 
> > rt-app 6%	100		42		102
> > rt-app 13%	100		58		101
> > rt-app 19%	100		87		101
> > rt-app 25%	100		94		104
> > rt-app 31%	100		93		104
> > rt-app 38%	100		114		117
> > rt-app 44%	100		115		118
> > rt-app 50%	100		125		126
> 
> Hi Morten,
> 
> What is noEAS? From the numbers, noEAS != Mainline?

Sorry, that should have been more clear.

Mainline:	tip/sched/core (not really mainline yet...)
EAS:		tip/sched/core + RFCv4 + EAS enabled.
noEAS:		tip/sched/core + RFCv4 + EAS disabled.

The main differences between plain tip/sched/core and EAS disabled is
that PELT is frequency invariant which affects the decisions in
period/idle/nohz_idle balance.

> Maybe also have some perf numbers to show that perf is in fact preserved
> while lowering power.

Couldn't agree more. Energy numbers on their own do not say much. I
hinted at the sysbench performance in the (trimmed) text further down.
The increase in energy for EAS is due to doing more work (higher
performance). The rt-app runs with task utilization in the lower end
should deliver the same level of performance as none of the cpus are
fully utilized. The little cpus have a capacity of 43% each. At the
higher end I would expect performance to be different. EAS tries its
best to put heavier tasks on the big cpus where mainline may choose a
different task distribution hence performance is likely to be different
like it is for sysbench.

A performance metric for rt-app is under discussion but not there yet.
We will work on getting that sorted as the next thing so we can see any
performance impact.

Thanks,
Morten
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