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    sched/topology: Make Energy Aware Scheduling depend on schedutil · 531b5c9f
    Quentin Perret authored
    
    
    Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) is designed with the assumption that
    frequencies of CPUs follow their utilization value. When using a CPUFreq
    governor other than schedutil, the chances of this assumption being true
    are small, if any. When schedutil is being used, EAS' predictions are at
    least consistent with the frequency requests. Although those requests
    have no guarantees to be honored by the hardware, they should at least
    guide DVFS in the right direction and provide some hope in regards to the
    EAS model being accurate.
    
    To make sure EAS is only used in a sane configuration, create a strong
    dependency on schedutil being used. Since having sugov compiled-in does
    not provide that guarantee, make CPUFreq call a scheduler function on
    governor changes hence letting it rebuild the scheduling domains, check
    the governors of the online CPUs, and enable/disable EAS accordingly.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org
    Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com
    Cc: currojerez@riseup.net
    Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
    Cc: edubezval@gmail.com
    Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
    Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org
    Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
    Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
    Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
    Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
    Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org
    Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org
    Cc: smuckle@google.com
    Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
    Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org
    Cc: tkjos@google.com
    Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
    Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
    Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-9-quentin.perret@arm.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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