cpufreq: schedutil: Make iowait boost more energy efficient
Currently the iowait_boost feature in schedutil makes the frequency go to max on iowait wakeups. This feature was added to handle a case that Peter described where the throughput of operations involving continuous I/O requests [1] is reduced due to running at a lower frequency, however the lower throughput itself causes utilization to be low and hence causing frequency to be low hence its "stuck". Instead of going to max, its also possible to achieve the same effect by ramping up to max if there are repeated in_iowait wakeups happening. This patch is an attempt to do that. We start from a lower frequency (policy->min) and double the boost for every consecutive iowait update until we reach the maximum iowait boost frequency (iowait_boost_max). I ran a synthetic test (continuous O_DIRECT writes in a loop) on an x86 machine with intel_pstate in passive mode using schedutil. In this test the iowait_boost value ramped from 800MHz to 4GHz in 60ms. The patch achieves the desired improved throughput as the existing behavior. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9735885/ Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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