sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay period

Thermal pressure follows pelt signals which means the decay period for
thermal pressure is the default pelt decay period. Depending on SoC
characteristics and thermal activity, it might be beneficial to decay
thermal pressure slower, but still in-tune with the pelt signals.  One way
to achieve this is to provide a command line parameter to set a decay
shift parameter to an integer between 0 and 10.

Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-10-thara.gopinath@linaro.org

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index c07815d230bc..dac8245ef588 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4392,6 +4392,22 @@
 			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
 			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
 
+	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
+			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
+			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
+			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
+			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
+			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
+			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
+			value.
+			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
+			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
+				1			64 ms
+				2			128 ms
+			and so on.
+			Format: integer between 0 and 10
+			Default is 0.
+
 	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
 			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
 			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.