From eff98df853d3253f05f243ab990ce27ed65453e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:38:11 +0100
Subject: sched: Introduce priority-based task migration filter

Introduces a priority threshold which prevents low priority task
from migrating to faster hmp_domains (cpus). This is useful for
user-space software which assigns lower task priority to background
task.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig    | 13 +++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 72bf6b188bb..44affe14935 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1570,6 +1570,19 @@ config SCHED_HMP
 	  !SCHED_AUTOGROUP. Furthermore, normal load-balancing must be disabled
 	  between cpus of different type (DISABLE_CPU_SCHED_DOMAIN_BALANCE).
 
+config SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER
+	bool "(EXPERIMENTAL) Filter HMP migrations by task priority"
+	depends on SCHED_HMP
+	help
+	  Enables task priority based HMP migration filter. Any task with
+	  a NICE value above the threshold will always be on low-power cpus
+	  with less compute capacity.
+
+config SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER_VAL
+	int "NICE priority threshold"
+	default 5
+	depends on SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER
+
 config HAVE_ARM_SCU
 	bool
 	help
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5d405283421..673992ec48b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3151,9 +3151,14 @@ static int __init hmp_cpu_mask_setup(void)
  * hmp_down_threshold: max. load allowed for tasks migrating to a slower cpu
  * The default values (512, 256) offer good responsiveness, but may need
  * tweaking suit particular needs.
+ *
+ * hmp_up_prio: Only up migrate task with high priority (<hmp_up_prio)
  */
 unsigned int hmp_up_threshold = 512;
 unsigned int hmp_down_threshold = 256;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER
+unsigned int hmp_up_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(CONFIG_SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER_VAL);
+#endif
 
 static unsigned int hmp_up_migration(int cpu, struct sched_entity *se);
 static unsigned int hmp_down_migration(int cpu, struct sched_entity *se);
@@ -5513,6 +5518,12 @@ static unsigned int hmp_up_migration(int cpu, struct sched_entity *se)
 	if (hmp_cpu_is_fastest(cpu))
 		return 0;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER
+	/* Filter by task priority */
+	if (p->prio >= hmp_up_prio)
+		return 0;
+#endif
+
 	if (cpumask_intersects(&hmp_faster_domain(cpu)->cpus,
 					tsk_cpus_allowed(p))
 		&& se->avg.load_avg_ratio > hmp_up_threshold) {
@@ -5529,6 +5540,12 @@ static unsigned int hmp_down_migration(int cpu, struct sched_entity *se)
 	if (hmp_cpu_is_slowest(cpu))
 		return 0;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HMP_PRIO_FILTER
+	/* Filter by task priority */
+	if (p->prio >= hmp_up_prio)
+		return 1;
+#endif
+
 	if (cpumask_intersects(&hmp_slower_domain(cpu)->cpus,
 					tsk_cpus_allowed(p))
 		&& se->avg.load_avg_ratio < hmp_down_threshold) {
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