linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 04/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting

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Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:17:17 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Steve Muckle <smuckle@...gle.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets
 refcounting

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:15:01AM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK

> +struct uclamp_bucket {
> +	unsigned long value : bits_per(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE);
> +	unsigned long tasks : BITS_PER_LONG - bits_per(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE);
> +};

> +struct uclamp_cpu {
> +	unsigned int value;

	/* 4 byte hole */

> +	struct uclamp_bucket bucket[UCLAMP_BUCKETS];
> +};

With the default of 5, this UCLAMP_BUCKETS := 6, so struct uclamp_cpu
ends up being 7 'unsigned long's, or 56 bytes on 64bit (with a 4 byte
hole).

> +#endif /* CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK */
> +
>  /*
>   * This is the main, per-CPU runqueue data structure.
>   *
> @@ -835,6 +879,11 @@ struct rq {
>  	unsigned long		nr_load_updates;
>  	u64			nr_switches;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK
> +	/* Utilization clamp values based on CPU's RUNNABLE tasks */
> +	struct uclamp_cpu	uclamp[UCLAMP_CNT] ____cacheline_aligned;

Which makes this 112 bytes with 8 bytes in 2 holes, which is short of 2
64 byte cachelines.

Is that the best layout?

> +#endif
> +
>  	struct cfs_rq		cfs;
>  	struct rt_rq		rt;
>  	struct dl_rq		dl;
> -- 
> 2.19.2
>