In system where multiple CPUs shares the same frequency domain a small
workload on a CPU can still be subject to frequency spikes, generated by
the activation of the sugov's kthread.
Since the sugov kthread is a special RT task, which goal is just that to
activate a frequency transition, it does not make sense for it to bias
the schedutil's frequency selection policy.
This patch exploits the information related to the current task to silently
ignore cpufreq_update_this_cpu() calls, coming from the RT scheduler, while
the sugov kthread is running.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bell...@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux...@vger.kernel.org
---
Changes from v1:
- move check before policy spinlock (JuriL)
---
kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index c982dd0..eaba6d6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ static void sugov_update_single(struct update_util_data
*hook, u64 time,
unsigned int next_f;
bool busy;
+ /* Skip updates generated by sugov kthreads */
+ if (unlikely(current == sg_policy->thread))
+ return;
+
sugov_set_iowait_boost(sg_cpu, time, flags);
sg_cpu->last_update = time;
@@ -290,6 +294,10 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data
*hook, u64 time,
unsigned long util, max;
unsigned int next_f;
+ /* Skip updates generated by sugov kthreads */
+ if (unlikely(current == sg_policy->thread))
+ return;
+
sugov_get_util(&util, &max);
raw_spin_lock(&sg_policy->update_lock);
--
2.7.4
