[PATCH v2 04/11] sched: Allow all archs to set the power_orig

[Vincent Guittot]

On 3 June 2014 15:22, Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> power_orig is only changed for system with a SMT sched_domain level in order to
>> reflect the lower capacity of CPUs. Heterogenous system also have to reflect an
>> original capacity that is different from the default value.
>>
>> Create a more generic function arch_scale_cpu_power that can be also used by
>> non SMT platform to set power_orig.
>
> I did a quick test of the patch set with adjusting cpu_power on
> big.LITTLE (ARM TC2) to reflect the different compute capacities of the
> A15s and A7s. I ran the sysbench cpu benchmark with 5 threads with and
> without the patches applied, but with non-default cpu_powers.
>
> I didn't see any difference in the load-balance. Three tasks ended up on
> the two A15s and two tasks ended up on two of the three A7s leaving one
> unused in both cases.
>
> Using default cpu_power I get one task on each of the five cpus (best
> throughput). Unless I messed something up, it seems that setting
> cpu_power doesn't give me the best throughput with these patches
> applied.

That's normal this patchset is necessary but not enough to solve the
issue you mention. We also need to fix the way the imbalance is
calculated for such situation. I have planned to push that in another
patchset in order to not mix too much thing together

Vincent

>
> Have you done any tests on big.LITTLE?
>
> Morten