sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms
authorQuentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:56:20 +0000 (09:56 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:17:00 +0000 (15:17 +0100)
commitb68a4c0dba3b1e1dda1ede49f3c2fc72d3b54567
treed8e49484faebb3bed72f0c32a936138b8d69c47e
parent011b27bb5d3139e8b5fe9ceff1fc7f6dc3145071
sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms

Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) in its current form is most relevant on
platforms with asymmetric CPU topologies (e.g. Arm big.LITTLE) since
this is where there is a lot of potential for saving energy through
scheduling. This is particularly true since the Energy Model only
includes the active power costs of CPUs, hence not providing enough data
to compare packing-vs-spreading strategies.

As such, disable EAS on root domains where the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag
is not set. While at it, disable EAS on systems where the complexity of
the Energy Model is too high since that could lead to unacceptable
scheduling overhead.

All in all, EAS can be used on a root domain if and only if:
  1. an Energy Model is available;
  2. the root domain has an asymmetric CPU capacity topology;
  3. the complexity of the root domain's EM is low enough to keep
     scheduling overheads low.

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: morten.rasmussen@arm.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/20181203095628.11858-8-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/topology.c