linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.20 163/304] sched/topology: Add lowest CPU asymmetry sched

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Message-ID: <20190128161415.4r4b2gq54o6qdrxa@queper01-lin>
Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:14:17 +0000
From:   Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
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        srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com, thara.gopinath@...aro.org,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.20 163/304] sched/topology: Add lowest CPU
 asymmetry sched_domain level pointer

Hi Sasha,

On Monday 28 Jan 2019 at 10:41:20 (-0500), Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 011b27bb5d3139e8b5fe9ceff1fc7f6dc3145071 ]
> 
> Add another member to the family of per-cpu sched_domain shortcut
> pointers. This one, sd_asym_cpucapacity, points to the lowest level
> at which the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is set. While at it, rename the
> sd_asym shortcut to sd_asym_packing to avoid confusions.
> 
> Generally speaking, the largest opportunity to save energy via
> scheduling comes from a smarter exploitation of heterogeneous platforms
> (i.e. big.LITTLE). Consequently, the sd_asym_cpucapacity shortcut will
> be used at first as the lowest domain where Energy-Aware Scheduling
> (EAS) should be applied. For example, it is possible to apply EAS within
> a socket on a multi-socket system, as long as each socket has an
> asymmetric topology. Energy-aware cross-sockets wake-up balancing will
> only happen when the system is over-utilized, or this_cpu and prev_cpu
> are in different sockets.

Although I'm not really confident about the process for those AUTOSEL
patches, I think this one alone won't help anybody without the other ~10
EAS patches. And I assume you definitely don't want to mark those as
stable, so I'm not sure if this one is a good candidate either.

On a side note, the best description I could find of AUTOSEL with a
5 min Google search is this:  https://lwn.net/Articles/750057/
Do you have any pointers to a doc where I can read up about AUTOSEL ?

Thanks,
Quentin