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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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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.