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authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>2015-01-13 13:45:51 +0000
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>2016-09-14 14:48:50 +0530
commitb043eb7320a9304f093224fdbb64419ed052b512 (patch)
tree1d837e9a5a01a5aeaf765aafbffd83bb6b868b0d
parent2fcba55ed9652ab9106fb92801583b890d3e49d3 (diff)
sched: Make energy awareness a sched feature
This patch introduces the ENERGY_AWARE sched feature, which is implemented using jump labels when SCHED_DEBUG is defined. It is statically set false when SCHED_DEBUG is not defined. Hence this doesn't allow energy awareness to be enabled without SCHED_DEBUG. This sched_feature knob will be replaced later with a more appropriate control knob when things have matured a bit. ENERGY_AWARE is based on per-entity load-tracking hence FAIR_GROUP_SCHED must be enable. This dependency isn't checked at compile time yet. cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c5
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/features.h5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 2dc28766cf9a..3fa6b311f93a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4672,6 +4672,11 @@ static long effective_load(struct task_group *tg, int cpu, long wl, long wg)
#endif
+static inline bool energy_aware(void)
+{
+ return sched_feat(ENERGY_AWARE);
+}
+
/*
* Detect M:N waker/wakee relationships via a switching-frequency heuristic.
* A waker of many should wake a different task than the one last awakened
diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index 69631fa46c2f..b634151ce286 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -69,3 +69,8 @@ SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, true)
SCHED_FEAT(LB_MIN, false)
SCHED_FEAT(ATTACH_AGE_LOAD, true)
+/*
+ * Energy aware scheduling. Use platform energy model to guide scheduling
+ * decisions optimizing for energy efficiency.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(ENERGY_AWARE, false)