linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/6] cpufreq: schedutil: avoid utilisation update when not necessary

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Message-Id: <1488469507-32463-6-git-send-email-patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Date:   Thu,  2 Mar 2017 15:45:06 +0000
From:   Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
        Tim Murray <timmurray@...gle.com>,
        Andres Oportus <andresoportus@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] cpufreq: schedutil: avoid utilisation update when not necessary

Under certain conditions (i.e. CPU entering idle and current task being
the sugov thread) we can skip a frequency update.
Thus, let's postpone the collection of the FAIR utilisation when really
needed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
---
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index 44bff37..c8ed645 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -296,8 +296,6 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
 	unsigned int next_f;
 	bool rt_mode;
 
-	sugov_get_util(&util, &max);
-
 	raw_spin_lock(&sg_policy->update_lock);
 
 	/* CPU is entering IDLE, reset flags without triggering an update */
@@ -323,6 +321,7 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
 	else
 		sg_cpu->flags = flags;
 
+	sugov_get_util(&util, &max);
 	sg_cpu->util = util;
 	sg_cpu->max = max;
 
-- 
2.7.4