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    cpufreq/schedutil: Take time spent in interrupts into account · 9033ea11
    Vincent Guittot authored
    The time spent executing IRQ handlers can be significant but it is not reflected
    in the utilization of CPU when deciding to choose an OPP. Now that we have
    access to this metric, schedutil can take it into account when selecting
    the OPP for a CPU.
    
    RQS utilization don't see the time spend under interrupt context and report
    their value in the normal context time window. We need to compensate this when
    adding interrupt utilization
    
    The CPU utilization is:
    
      IRQ util_avg + (1 - IRQ util_avg / max capacity ) * /Sum rq util_avg
    
    A test with iperf on hikey (octo arm64) gives the following speedup:
    
     iperf -c server_address -r -t 5
    
     w/o patch		w/ patch
     Tx 276 Mbits/sec	304 Mbits/sec +10%
     Rx 299 Mbits/sec	328 Mbits/sec  +9%
    
     8 iterations
     stdev is lower than 1%
    
    Only WFI idle state is enabled (shallowest idle state).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
    Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
    Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
    Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
    Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
    Cc: luca.abeni@santannapisa.it
    Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
    Cc: quentin.perret@arm.com
    Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
    Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530200714-4504-8-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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