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From: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com>,
	Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@arm.com>,
	Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue to SCHED_FIFO task
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:32:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9caf98b-706d-d331-89c4-b75120589da3@sssup.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85bf45982709e06f7f42e1b8f8315945e9d9b6d0.1478858983.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

Hi,

On 11/11/2016 11:22, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context
> then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including
> indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place.
>
> Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the
> thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE.

would you have an insight, as to what runtime/deadline/period to set, and/or
what specific timing constraints you'd like to set, just for this cpufreq
slowpath work?

> The RT priority is arbitrarily set
> to 50 for now.
[...]
> +	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };

won't you have a tunable here? (sysctl?)

Thanks,

	T.
-- 
Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD
Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-11 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-11 10:22 [PATCH 0/3] " Viresh Kumar
2016-11-11 10:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] cpufreq: schedutil: enable fast switch earlier Viresh Kumar
2016-11-11 14:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 21:52     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-11-11 22:55       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 21:58   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-11-12  5:19     ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-13 14:46       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-11-14  4:06         ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-14 11:30           ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-11 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue to SCHED_FIFO task Viresh Kumar
2016-11-11 14:32   ` Tommaso Cucinotta [this message]
2016-11-11 14:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-12  5:22       ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-14  9:22         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-14 10:22           ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-12  5:21     ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-11 22:16   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-11-12  1:31     ` Saravana Kannan
2016-11-12  5:27       ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-14  5:37         ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-13 14:37       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-11-13 19:47         ` Steve Muckle
2016-11-13 22:44           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-11-14  6:36             ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-12  5:24     ` Viresh Kumar
2016-11-13 19:31     ` Steve Muckle
2016-11-11 10:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: schedutil: irq-work is used only in slow path Viresh Kumar

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