Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/uclamp: Set max_spare_cap_cpu even if max_spare_cap is 0

[Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com>]

Hi Qais,

On 2023-02-11 17:50, Qais Yousef wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> So EAS keeps packing on the cheaper PD/clamped OPP.
> 
> Which is the desired behavior for uclamp_max?
> 
> The only issue I see is that we want to distribute within a pd. Which is
> something I was going to work on and send after later - but can lump it in this
> series if it helps.

I more or less share the same concern with Dietmar, which is packing 
things on the same small CPU when everyone has spare cpu_cap of 0.

I wonder if this could be useful: On the side of cfs_rq->avg.util_avg, 
we have a cfs_rq->avg.util_avg_uclamp_max. It is keeping track of 
util_avg, but each task on the rq is capped at its uclamp_max value, so 
even if there's two always-running tasks with uclamp_max values of 100 
with no idle time, the cfs_rq only sees cpu_util() of 200 and still has 
remaining capacity of 1024 - 200, not 0. This also helps balancing the 
load when rqs have no idle time. Even if two CPUs both have no idle 
time, but one is running a single task clamped at 100, the other running 
2 such tasks, the first sees a remaining capacity of 1024 - 100, while 
the 2nd is 1024 - 200, so we still prefer the first one.

And I wonder if this could also help calculating energy when there's no 
idle time under uclamp_max. Instead of seeing a util_avg at 1024, we 
actually see a lower value. This is also what cpu_util_next() does in 
Android's sum aggregation, but I'm thinking of maintaining it right 
beside util_avg so that we don't have to sum up everything every time.

Hongyan