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* [Eas-dev] Computing the dynamic-power-coefficient on Exynos5422
@ 2018-07-26  8:04 Oliver Effland
  2018-07-27  2:06 ` Steven Miao
  2018-08-02 16:14 ` Dietmar Eggemann
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Oliver Effland @ 2018-07-26  8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

Hi,

First of all: thanks for all the valuable input! @(Russell, Dietmar & Steven)

On 07/23/2018 08:51 AM, Steven Miao wrote:
> Hi  Oliver,
> 
> Generally these dynamic co-efficiency and static leakage power comes
> from hardware design team by running power estimation tool, however
> you can tun these co-efficiency and parameters for better performance.
> 
> How did you get A7 or A15 power? Get Soc power or there's separate
> sensor for A7/A15?
Yes indeed, there are 2 seperate sensors for the A7 and A15.

> If you want to create cpu busy power model manually, you can:
> 1 leave 1 A7 + 1 A15 core online, keep other cores offline, disable
> thermal zone, disable idle state for all cores
> 2 set A7 frequency to 200Mhz, move all the task to A15, run cpu
> intensive task on A7(dhrystone, sysbench cpu test), read sensor to get
> 1 A7 power P1(read from A7 cluster sensor)
> 3 online 2 A7 core, run dhrystone on each core, and get power P2
> 
> we can get 1 A7 core power at 200Mhz ~= P2 - P1 (A7 power X 2 + static
> power - A7 power X 1 - static power
I followed your manual steps (using a busy loop for 10s, instead of a benchmark) and corrected my calculations (with the static
power in mind):

A7:
freq(MHz) voltage(mV) Power(mW)	A7_Power(mW)  Stat_Power(mW) DPC
200	  918.750     34.768	12.203	      10.362	     72.283955
400	  920.000     60.805	21.25	      18.305	     62.765831
600	  968.750     98.046	35.084	      27.878	     62.306652
800	  1042.500    148.095	52.285	      43.525	     60.136063
1000	  1116.250    212.214	76.112	      59.99	     61.084382
1200	  1190.000    288.958	99.993	      88.972	     58.842948
1400	  1288.750    411.936	144.807	      122.322	     62.276495
						
							mean: 62	

A15:
freq(MHz) voltage(mV) Power(mW) A15_Power(mW) Stat_Power(mW) DPC
200       916250      122.584   31.139        60.306         185.458477
500       916250      225.101   68.774        87.553         163.842401
800       942500      349.158   112.432       124.294        158.211202
1100      1016250     540.78    169.556       201.668        149.251725
1400      1078750     779.19    258.214       262.762        158.493016
1700      1180000     1179.344  392.107       395.13         165.650083
2000      1320000     1969.764  648.768       672.228        186.170798
						
							mean: 164

The ratio between A15 and A7 is now 164/62 = 2.645

I hope the dynamic-power-coefficient's are more accurate now?

> dynamic-power-coefficient ~= 400 - 500 is reasonable for big core
> dynamic-power-coefficient  ~= 100 is reasonable for LITTLE core.
> For IPA it can work effectively with a poor power model(not so
> accurate), for EAS it just need power model of LITTLE core and big
> core is proportional.

I'm guessing my values differ from your suggested values, because it's 32bit ARM?

Best regards,
Oliver

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* Computing the dynamic-power-coefficient on Exynos5422
@ 2018-07-20 14:15 Oliver Effland
  2018-07-20 15:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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From: Oliver Effland @ 2018-07-20 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

Hello everyone,

I hope this is the right place to ask, otherwise please just point me in the right direction.

I'm currently testing the EAS patches [v4] on an ODROID-XU3 board, which has an Exynos5422 SoC. However, the corresponding DT is missing the "dynamic-power-coefficient" that is needed for an appropriate EM.
So I'm trying to compute the dynamic-power-coefficient according to the formula:

Pdyn = dynamic-power-coefficient * V^2 * f

The frequency f is given by the DT.The actual Voltage and Power are determined by means of the on-chip sensors (returns the values for the specific cluster). When using the Voltage given in the DT, the differences for the d-p-coefficient are negligible.

So I'm calculating the d-p-coefficient (mW/MHz/uV^2) by reading out the following SoC sensor values.

For the little cluster (A7):
frequency(MHz)  Voltage(V)  Power(mW)	Dynamic-power-coefficient
 200		0.9175	     49.470	~2.938*10^-13
 400		0.9165	     91.892	~2.736*10^-13
 600		0.9638	    149.454	~2.682*10^-13
 800		1.0263	    223.453	~2.652*10^-13
1000		1.1000	    327.707	~2.708*10^-13
1200		1.1725	    445.899	~2.703*10^-13
1400		1.2713	    627.010	~2.771*10^-13

For the big cluster (A15):
frequency(MHz)  Voltage(V)  Power(mW)	Dynamic-power-coefficient
 200		0.9162	     159.676	~9.510*10^-13
 500		0.9138	     325.480	~7.797*10^-13
 800		0.9288	     511.360	~7.410*10^-13
1100		1.0063	     828.020	~7.434*10^-13
1400		1.0713	    1209.774	~7.530*10^-13
1700		1.1750	    1835.784	~7.822*10^-13
2000		1.2700	    2661.849	~8.252*10^-13


But those values are way off for the DT, unless I multiply the d-p-coefficient with 10^15.

Assuming the Power value needs to be subtracted by a static component (power usage when idle), the results change as follows:

For the little cluster (A7):
frequency(MHz)  Voltage(V)  P-dyn(mW)	Dynamic-power-coefficient
 200		0.9175	    36,381 	~2,160*10^-13
 400		0.9165	    73,438	~2,186*10^-13
 600		0.9638	    122,470	~2,197*10^-13
 800		1.0263	    184,135	~2,185*10^-13
1000		1.1000	    270,425	~2,234*10^-13
1200		1.1725	    367,121	~2,225*10^-13
1400		1.2713 	    513,989	~2,271*10^-13

For the big cluster (A15):
frequency(MHz)  Voltage(V)  P-dyn(mW)	Dynamic-power-coefficient
 200		0.9162	    99,834 	~5,945*10^-13
 500		0.9138	    244,651 	~5,860*10^-13
 800		0.9288	    401,986 	~5,825*10^-13
1100		1.0063	    664,565 	~5,966*10^-13
1400		1.0713	    985,268	~6,132*10^-13
1700		1.1750	    1494,173	~6,366*10^-13
2000		1.2700	    2086,273	~6,467*10^-13


While looking for examples in the kernel that calculate the dynamic-power-coefficient, I found this patch [1] by Caesar Wang that introduced this value for the rk3399 big cluster.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce the same results for the coefficient with the given values. My results are also with a 10^-13 factor and even when I scale them with 10^15, my results have a certain margin of error:

> frequency(MHz)  Voltage(V)  Current(mA) Dynamic-power-coefficient	(My) d-p-coefficient
> 24              0.8         15			
> 48              0.8         23          ~417				~598		
> 96              0.8         40          ~443				~520
> 216             0.8         82          ~438				~474
> 312             0.8         115         ~430				~460
> 408             0.8         150         ~455				~459


Is this the right approach, or am I missing something?
Hope someone can help me out.

Thanks in advance,
Oliver Effland

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9861505/

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