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The responsiveness of the Per Entity Load Tracking (PELT) util_avg in mobile devices is still considered too low for utilization changes during task ramp-up. In Android this manifests in the fact that the first frames of a UI activity are very prone to be jankframes (a frame which doesn't meet the required frame rendering time, e.g. 16ms@60Hz) since the CPU frequency is normally low at this point and has to ramp up quickly. The beginning of an UI activity is also characterized by the occurrence of CPU contention, especially on little CPUs. Current little CPUs can have an original CPU capacity of only ~ 150 which means that the actual CPU capacity at lower frequency can even be much smaller. Schedutil maps CPU util_avg into CPU frequency request via: util = effective_cpu_util(..., cpu_util_cfs(cpu), ...) -> util = map_util_perf(util) -> freq = map_util_freq(util, ...) CPU contention for CFS tasks can be detected by 'CPU runnable > CPU utililization' in cpu_util_cfs_boost() -> cpu_util(..., boost = 1). Schedutil uses 'runnable boosting' by calling cpu_util_cfs_boost(). To be in sync with schedutil's CPU frequency selection, Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) also calls cpu_util(..., boost = 1) during max util detection. Moreover, 'runnable boosting' is also used in load-balance for busiest CPU selection when the migration type is 'migrate_util', i.e. only at sched domains which don't have the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set. Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515115735.296329-3-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.