sched/topology: Add lowest CPU asymmetry sched_domain level pointer
authorQuentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:56:19 +0000 (09:56 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:16:59 +0000 (15:16 +0100)
commit011b27bb5d3139e8b5fe9ceff1fc7f6dc3145071
treeb32023356bab474fe23999fe3c19339d617cf466
parent6aa140fa4508933a6ac6717d65a403eb904d6c02
sched/topology: Add lowest CPU asymmetry sched_domain level pointer

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.

Suggested-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org
Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com
Cc: currojerez@riseup.net
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: edubezval@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org
Cc: smuckle@google.com
Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org
Cc: tkjos@google.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-7-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/sched.h
kernel/sched/topology.c