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1 files changed, 64 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
index e1c6433b16e0..1b44496b2d2b 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
@@ -36,14 +36,29 @@ void dbs_check_cpu(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, int cpu)
struct od_dbs_tuners *od_tuners = dbs_data->tuners;
struct cs_dbs_tuners *cs_tuners = dbs_data->tuners;
struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
+ unsigned int sampling_rate;
unsigned int max_load = 0;
unsigned int ignore_nice;
unsigned int j;
- if (dbs_data->cdata->governor == GOV_ONDEMAND)
+ if (dbs_data->cdata->governor == GOV_ONDEMAND) {
+ struct od_cpu_dbs_info_s *od_dbs_info =
+ dbs_data->cdata->get_cpu_dbs_info_s(cpu);
+
+ /*
+ * Sometimes, the ondemand governor uses an additional
+ * multiplier to give long delays. So apply this multiplier to
+ * the 'sampling_rate', so as to keep the wake-up-from-idle
+ * detection logic a bit conservative.
+ */
+ sampling_rate = od_tuners->sampling_rate;
+ sampling_rate *= od_dbs_info->rate_mult;
+
ignore_nice = od_tuners->ignore_nice_load;
- else
+ } else {
+ sampling_rate = cs_tuners->sampling_rate;
ignore_nice = cs_tuners->ignore_nice_load;
+ }
policy = cdbs->cur_policy;
@@ -96,7 +111,46 @@ void dbs_check_cpu(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, int cpu)
if (unlikely(!wall_time || wall_time < idle_time))
continue;
- load = 100 * (wall_time - idle_time) / wall_time;
+ /*
+ * If the CPU had gone completely idle, and a task just woke up
+ * on this CPU now, it would be unfair to calculate 'load' the
+ * usual way for this elapsed time-window, because it will show
+ * near-zero load, irrespective of how CPU intensive that task
+ * actually is. This is undesirable for latency-sensitive bursty
+ * workloads.
+ *
+ * To avoid this, we reuse the 'load' from the previous
+ * time-window and give this task a chance to start with a
+ * reasonably high CPU frequency. (However, we shouldn't over-do
+ * this copy, lest we get stuck at a high load (high frequency)
+ * for too long, even when the current system load has actually
+ * dropped down. So we perform the copy only once, upon the
+ * first wake-up from idle.)
+ *
+ * Detecting this situation is easy: the governor's deferrable
+ * timer would not have fired during CPU-idle periods. Hence
+ * an unusually large 'wall_time' (as compared to the sampling
+ * rate) indicates this scenario.
+ *
+ * prev_load can be zero in two cases and we must recalculate it
+ * for both cases:
+ * - during long idle intervals
+ * - explicitly set to zero
+ */
+ if (unlikely(wall_time > (2 * sampling_rate) &&
+ j_cdbs->prev_load)) {
+ load = j_cdbs->prev_load;
+
+ /*
+ * Perform a destructive copy, to ensure that we copy
+ * the previous load only once, upon the first wake-up
+ * from idle.
+ */
+ j_cdbs->prev_load = 0;
+ } else {
+ load = 100 * (wall_time - idle_time) / wall_time;
+ j_cdbs->prev_load = load;
+ }
if (load > max_load)
max_load = load;
@@ -318,11 +372,18 @@ int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
for_each_cpu(j, policy->cpus) {
struct cpu_dbs_common_info *j_cdbs =
dbs_data->cdata->get_cpu_cdbs(j);
+ unsigned int prev_load;
j_cdbs->cpu = j;
j_cdbs->cur_policy = policy;
j_cdbs->prev_cpu_idle = get_cpu_idle_time(j,
&j_cdbs->prev_cpu_wall, io_busy);
+
+ prev_load = (unsigned int)
+ (j_cdbs->prev_cpu_wall - j_cdbs->prev_cpu_idle);
+ j_cdbs->prev_load = 100 * prev_load /
+ (unsigned int) j_cdbs->prev_cpu_wall;
+
if (ignore_nice)
j_cdbs->prev_cpu_nice =
kcpustat_cpu(j).cpustat[CPUTIME_NICE];
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