From: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Nicola Mazzucato <nicola.mazzucato@arm.com>
Cc: nm@ti.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
sboyd@kernel.org, vireshk@kernel.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
robh+dt@kernel.org, sudeep.holla@arm.com, chris.redpath@arm.com,
morten.rasmussen@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] [RFC] CPUFreq: Add support for cpu-perf-dependencies
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 10:37:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a334a73-45ef-58ff-7dfd-9df6f4ff290a@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106092020.za3oxg7gutzc3y2b@vireshk-i7>
Hi Viresh,
On 11/6/20 9:20 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 02-11-20, 12:01, Nicola Mazzucato wrote:
>> This is a continuation of the previous v2, where we focused mostly on the
>> dt binding.
>>
>> I am seeking some feedback/comments on the following two approaches.
>>
>> Intro:
>> We have seen that in a system where performance control and hardware
>> description do not match (i.e. per-cpu), we still need the information of
>> how the v/f lines are shared among the cpus. We call this information
>> "performance dependencies".
>> We got this info through the opp-shared (the previous 2 patches aim for
>> that).
>>
>> Problem:
>> How do we share such info (retrieved from a cpufreq driver) to other
>> consumers that rely on it? I have two proposals.
>
> I haven't really stop thinking about what and how we should solve
> this, but I have few concerns first.
>
>> 2) drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling: Replace related_cpus with dependent_cpus
>
> I am not sure if I understand completely on how this is going to be
> modified/work.
>
> The only use of related_cpus in the cooling driver is in the helper
> cdev->get_requested_power(), where we need to find the total power
> being consumed by devices controlled by the cooling device. Right ?
>
> Now the cooling devices today are very closely related to the cpufreq
> policy, the registration function itself takes a cpufreq policy as an
> argument.
>
> Consider that you have an octa-core platform and all the CPUs are
> dependent on each other. With your suggested changes and hw control,
> we will have different cpufreq policies for each CPU. And so we will
> have a cooling device, cdev, for each CPU as well. When the IPA
> governor calls cdev->get_requested_power(), why should we ever bother
> to traverse the list of dependent_cpus and not related_cpus only ?
>
> Otherwise the same CPU will have its load contributed to the power of
> 8 cooling devices.
>
Good question.
How about a different interface for those cpufreq drivers?
That new registration API would allow to specify the cpumask.
Or rely on EM cpumask: em_span_cpus(em)
Currently we have two ways to register cooling device:
1. when the cpufreq driver set a flag CPUFREQ_IS_COOLING_DEV, the core
will register cooling device
2. cpufreq driver can explicitly call the registration function:
cpufreq_cooling_register() with 'policy' as argument
That would need substantial change to the cpufreq cooling code, from
policy oriented to custom driver's cpumask (like EM registration).
Regards,
Lukasz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 12:01 [PATCH v3 0/3] CPUFreq: Add support for cpu performance dependencies Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-02 12:01 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] dt-bindings/opp: Update documentation for opp-shared Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-02 12:01 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] opp/of: Allow empty opp-table with opp-shared Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-03 5:01 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-04 17:54 ` Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-05 4:41 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-16 11:45 ` Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-02 12:01 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] [RFC] CPUFreq: Add support for cpu-perf-dependencies Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-06 9:20 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-06 10:37 ` Lukasz Luba [this message]
2020-11-06 10:55 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-06 11:14 ` Lukasz Luba
2020-11-09 6:57 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-16 11:33 ` Lukasz Luba
2020-11-17 10:11 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-17 10:47 ` Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-17 10:53 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-17 13:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-18 4:42 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-18 12:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-19 6:40 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-17 10:47 ` Lukasz Luba
2020-11-17 10:55 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-06 9:24 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-19 6:43 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-03 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] CPUFreq: Add support for cpu performance dependencies Viresh Kumar
2020-11-04 18:04 ` Nicola Mazzucato
2020-11-05 14:25 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-11-05 15:46 ` Ionela Voinescu
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