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sched/fair: Fix frequency selection for non-invariant case
Linus reported a ~50% performance regression on single-threaded workloads on his AMD Ryzen system, and bisected it to: 9c0b4bb ("sched/cpufreq: Rework schedutil governor performance estimation") When frequency invariance is not enabled, get_capacity_ref_freq(policy) is supposed to return the current frequency and the performance margin applied by map_util_perf(), enabling the utilization to go above the maximum compute capacity and to select a higher frequency than the current one. After the changes in 9c0b4bb, the performance margin was applied earlier in the path to take into account utilization clampings and we couldn't get a utilization higher than the maximum compute capacity, and the CPU remained 'stuck' at lower frequencies. To fix this, we must use a frequency above the current frequency to get a chance to select a higher OPP when the current one becomes fully used. Apply the same margin and return a frequency 25% higher than the current one in order to switch to the next OPP before we fully use the CPU at the current one. [ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ] Fixes: 9c0b4bb ("sched/cpufreq: Rework schedutil governor performance estimation") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Bisected-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Wyes Karny <wkarny@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wkarny@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240114183600.135316-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c

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@@ -133,7 +133,11 @@ unsigned long get_capacity_ref_freq(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
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if (arch_scale_freq_invariant())
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return policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
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return policy->cur;
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/*
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* Apply a 25% margin so that we select a higher frequency than
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* the current one before the CPU is fully busy:
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return policy->cur + (policy->cur >> 2);
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