Re: [PATCH 07/11] cpufreq/schedutil: take into account interrupt

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:30:33AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 28-06-18, 17:45, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > The time spent under interrupt can be significant but it is not reflected
> > in the utilization of CPU when deciding to choose an OPP. Now that we have
> > access to this metric, schedutil can take it into account when selecting
> > the OPP for a CPU.
> > rqs utilization don't see the time spend under interrupt context and report
> > their value in the normal context time window. We need to compensate this when
> > adding interrupt utilization
> > 
> > The CPU utilization is :
> >   irq util_avg + (1 - irq util_avg / max capacity ) * /Sum rq util_avg
> > 
> > A test with iperf on hikey (octo arm64) gives:
> > iperf -c server_address -r -t 5
> > 
> > w/o patch		w/ patch
> > Tx 276 Mbits/sec        304 Mbits/sec +10%
> > Rx 299 Mbits/sec        328 Mbits/sec +09%
> > 
> > 8 iterations
> > stdev is lower than 1%
> > Only WFI idle state is enable (shallowest diel state)

Also s/diel/idle/

> > +	/*
> > +	 * Interrupt time is not seen by rqs utilization nso we can compare
> 
>                                                          nso ?
> 
> > +	 * them with the CPU capacity
> > +	 */

Already fixed ;-)