sched/cpufreq/schedutil: Use util_est for OPP selection

When schedutil looks at the CPU utilization, the current PELT value for
that CPU is returned straight away. In certain scenarios this can have
undesired side effects and delays on frequency selection.

For example, since the task utilization is decayed at wakeup time, a
long sleeping big task newly enqueued does not add immediately a
significant contribution to the target CPU. This introduces some latency
before schedutil will be able to detect the best frequency required by
that task.

Moreover, the PELT signal build-up time is a function of the current
frequency, because of the scale invariant load tracking support. Thus,
starting from a lower frequency, the utilization build-up time will
increase even more and further delays the selection of the actual
frequency which better serves the task requirements.

In order to reduce these kind of latencies, we integrate the usage
of the CPU's estimated utilization in the sugov_get_util function.

This allows to properly consider the expected utilization of a CPU which,
for example, has just got a big task running after a long sleep period.
Ultimately this allows to select the best frequency to run a task
right after its wake-up.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve Muckle <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Todd Kjos <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 22909ffc04fb..c3deaee7a7a2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2163,6 +2163,13 @@ static inline unsigned long cpu_util_dl(struct rq *rq)
 
 static inline unsigned long cpu_util_cfs(struct rq *rq)
 {
-	return rq->cfs.avg.util_avg;
+	unsigned long util = READ_ONCE(rq->cfs.avg.util_avg);
+
+	if (sched_feat(UTIL_EST)) {
+		util = max_t(unsigned long, util,
+			     READ_ONCE(rq->cfs.avg.util_est.enqueued));
+	}
+
+	return util;
 }
 #endif