Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched/fair: Prepare variables for increased precision of EAS estimated energy

[Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>]

On 7/7/21 11:50 AM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 12:41, Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> wrote:
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>> On 7/7/21 11:32 AM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 12:29, Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 7/7/21 11:11 AM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 12:06, Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> No. It's in 0.1uW scale, so 800Watts. Which is 16 CPUs * 64Watts
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>>>>> Oh! you want 0.1uW precision .... This doesn't seem realistic at all.
>>>>> I'm not even sure that the power model can even reach an accuracy of
>>>>> 1mW
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>>>> True, the EM is registering platform with 1mW precision, but 1uW
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>>> Do you mean 1uW or 0.1uW ?
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>> In this patch set I've proposed 0.1uW, but I'm open to drop one
>> order of magnitude. The 1uW still be good.
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> I don't want to underestimate the capabilities of the power model but
> I don't see which benefit you will get with 0.1uW precision
> With a 1uW precision the long type currently used for the returned
> value is fine for 32bits machine AFAICT
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For 1uW and 1.2Watts for one core, 4 CPUs in cluster we get:
(1200 * 1000) * (4 * 1024) = ~4.9bln
so it would need div 64 version