linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 01/15] sched/core: uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting

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Message-ID: <20190314121315.juqpsqu5cwouuqpp@e110439-lin>
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:13:15 +0000
From:   Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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 v7 01/15] sched/core: uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets
 refcounting

On 13-Mar 20:48, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 04:12:29PM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> > On 13-Mar 14:40, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:05:40AM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> > > > +static inline unsigned int uclamp_bucket_id(unsigned int clamp_value)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	return clamp_value / UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +static inline unsigned int uclamp_bucket_value(unsigned int clamp_value)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	return UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA * uclamp_bucket_id(clamp_value);
> > > 
> > > 	return clamp_value - (clamp_value % UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA);
> > > 
> > > might generate better code; just a single division, instead of a div and
> > > mult.
> > 
> > Wondering if compilers cannot do these optimizations... but yes, looks
> > cool and will do it in v8, thanks.
> 
> I'd be most impressed if they pull this off. Check the generated code
> and see I suppose :-)

On x86 the code generated looks exactly the same:

   https://godbolt.org/z/PjmA7k

While on on arm64 it seems the difference boils down to:
 - one single "mul" instruction
vs
 - two instructions: "sub" _plus_ one "multiply subtract"

  https://godbolt.org/z/0shU0S

So, if I din't get something wrong... perhaps the original version is
even better, isn't it?


Test code:

---8<---
#define UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA 52

static inline unsigned int uclamp_bucket_id(unsigned int clamp_value)
{
    return clamp_value / UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA;
}

static inline unsigned int uclamp_bucket_value1(unsigned int clamp_value)
{
    return UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA * uclamp_bucket_id(clamp_value);
}

static inline unsigned int uclamp_bucket_value2(unsigned int clamp_value)
{
    return clamp_value - (clamp_value % UCLAMP_BUCKET_DELTA);
}

int test1(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    return uclamp_bucket_value1(argc);
}

int test2(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    return uclamp_bucket_value2(argc);
}

int test3(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    return uclamp_bucket_value1(argc) - uclamp_bucket_value2(argc);
}
---8<---

which gives on arm64:

---8<---
test1:
        mov     w1, 60495
        movk    w1, 0x4ec4, lsl 16
        umull   x0, w0, w1
        lsr     x0, x0, 36
        mov     w1, 52
        mul     w0, w0, w1
        ret
test2:
        mov     w1, 60495
        movk    w1, 0x4ec4, lsl 16
        umull   x1, w0, w1
        lsr     x1, x1, 36
        mov     w2, 52
        msub    w1, w1, w2, w0
        sub     w0, w0, w1
        ret
test3:
        mov     w0, 0
        ret
---8<---


-- 
#include <best/regards.h>

Patrick Bellasi