The branch ratio algorithm in the vm_power_manager sample application
can be very sensitive at patricular loads in a workload, causing
oscillations between min and max frequency. For example, if a
workload is at 50%, scaling up may change the ratio
enough that it immediately thinks it needs to scale down again.
This patch introduces a sliding window recording the scale up/down
direction for the last 32 samples, and scales up if any samples indicate
we should scale up, otherwise scale down. Each core has it's own window.
Fixes: 4b1a631b8a8a ("examples/vm_power: add oob monitoring functions")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
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