From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22EFC48BE5 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBDE760238 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231302AbhFVOLy (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:11:54 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:49960 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230047AbhFVOLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:11:53 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CC631B; Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.57.7.129] (unknown [10.57.7.129]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 603503F694; Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:09:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] cpufreq: Add Active Stats calls tracking frequency changes To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Daniel Lezcano , Linux PM , Amit Kucheria , "Zhang, Rui" , Dietmar Eggemann , Chris Redpath , Beata.Michalska@arm.com, Viresh Kumar , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Amit Kachhap References: <20210622075925.16189-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com> <20210622075925.16189-4-lukasz.luba@arm.com> <4e5476a6-fa9f-a9ef-ff26-8fa1b4bb90c0@arm.com> From: Lukasz Luba Message-ID: <851205af-39d6-3864-bd28-ae84528946c4@arm.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:09:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/22/21 2:51 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:42 PM Lukasz Luba wrote: >> >> >> >> On 6/22/21 1:28 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 9:59 AM Lukasz Luba wrote: >>>> >>>> The Active Stats framework tracks and accounts the activity of the CPU >>>> for each performance level. It accounts the real residency, when the CPU >>>> was not idle, at a given performance level. This patch adds needed calls >>>> which provide the CPU frequency transition events to the Active Stats >>>> framework. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba >>>> --- >>>> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 5 +++++ >>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c >>>> index 802abc925b2a..d79cb9310572 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c >>>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c >>>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ >>>> >>>> #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt >>>> >>>> +#include >>>> #include >>>> #include >>>> #include >>>> @@ -387,6 +388,8 @@ static void cpufreq_notify_transition(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, >>>> >>>> cpufreq_stats_record_transition(policy, freqs->new); >>>> policy->cur = freqs->new; >>>> + >>>> + active_stats_cpu_freq_change(policy->cpu, freqs->new); >>>> } >>>> } >>>> >>>> @@ -2085,6 +2088,8 @@ unsigned int cpufreq_driver_fast_switch(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, >>>> policy->cpuinfo.max_freq); >>>> cpufreq_stats_record_transition(policy, freq); >>>> >>>> + active_stats_cpu_freq_fast_change(policy->cpu, freq); >>>> + >>> >>> This is quite a bit of overhead and so why is it needed in addition to >>> the code below? >> >> The code below is tracing, which is good for post-processing. We use in >> our tool LISA, when we analyze the EAS decision, based on captured >> trace data. >> >> This new code is present at run time, so subsystems like our thermal >> governor IPA can use it and get better estimation about CPU used power >> for any arbitrary period, e.g. 50ms, 100ms, 300ms, ... > > So can it be made not run when the IPA is not using it? I can make a Kconfig for IPA to select this ACTIVE_STATS. Also, I can add description that this framework is mostly needed for IPA, so don't enable it if you don't use IPA (default is 'n' so it shouldn't harm others). This Active Stats shouldn't be stopped when thermal zone is switching between governors at run time, e.g. IPA -> step_wise -> IPA because when IPA is set next time, it might not have correct CPU stats (what is the current frequency and for how long it has been actively used). Beside, switching governors at run time is not a good idea (apart from stress testing them ;) ). > >>> >>> And pretty much the same goes for the idle loop change. There is >>> quite a bit of instrumentation in that code already and it avoids >>> adding new locking for a reason. Why is it a good idea to add more >>> locking to that code? >> >> This active_stats_cpu_freq_fast_change() doesn't use the locking, it >> relies on schedutil lock in [1]. > > Ah, OK. > > But it still adds overhead AFAICS. Agree, it's an extra code. For platforms which use IPA it's a justifiable cost, weighted by better estimation thanks to this calls. For other platforms, this framework will be set to default 'n' option.