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find_energy_efficient_cpu() integrates a margin to protect tasks from bouncing back and forth from a CPU to another. This margin is set as being 6% of the total current energy estimated on the system. This however does not work for two reasons: 1. The energy estimation is not a good absolute value: compute_energy() used in feec() is a good estimation for task placement as it allows to compare the energy with and without a task. The computed delta will give a good overview of the cost for a certain task placement. It, however, doesn't work as an absolute estimation for the total energy of the system. First it adds the contribution to idle CPUs into the energy, second it mixes util_avg with util_est values. util_avg contains the near history for a CPU usage, it doesn't tell at all what the current utilization is. A system that has been quite busy in the near past will hold a very high energy and then a high margin preventing any task migration to a lower capacity CPU, wasting energy. It even creates a negative feedback loop: by holding the tasks on a less efficient CPU, the margin contributes in keeping the energy high. 2. The margin handicaps small tasks: On a system where the workload is composed mostly of small tasks (which is often the case on Android), the overall energy will be high enough to create a margin none of those tasks can cross. On a Pixel4, a small utilization of 5% on all the CPUs creates a global estimated energy of 140 joules, as per the Energy Model declaration of that same device. This means, after applying the 6% margin that any migration must save more than 8 joules to happen. No task with a utilization lower than 40 would then be able to migrate away from the biggest CPU of the system. The 6% of the overall system energy was brought by the following patch: ( |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.