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SubjectRe: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH] sched: Enable root level cgroup bandwidth control
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 1:03 PM Vincent Guittot
<vincent.guittot@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 12:38, Feiran Zheng . <fam.zheng@bytedance.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:21 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > > > In the data center there sometimes comes a need to throttle down a
> > > > server,
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > For economical reasons there can be over-provisioning in DC power
> > supply (UPS capacity etc) because the utilization expectation of the
> > racks is not maximum value. But the workload can be client driven,
> > depending on how many users are online, and in the end the power
> > supply may overload and trip itself. To avoid that, upon a threshold,
> > some servers need to be brought down or throttled. The latter is
> > obviously going to be much more smooth.
>
> This looks like thermal or power budget management. We have other ways
> to do so with powercap or idle injection. Did you consider those
> solutions ?

Hi Vincent,

I looked at powercap, and it seems Intel only? Any idea about AMD/ARM?
There seems nothing for them under drivers/powercap/.

I don't know the idle injection interface, can you please give more hints?

I also plan to test uclamp, still need to learn more about that.

Fam

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