Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] topology: Allow multiple entities to provide sched_freq_tick() callback

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] topology: Allow multiple entities to provide sched_freq_tick() callback
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:55:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210217042558.o4anjdkayzgqny55@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210217002422.GA17422@arm.com>

On 17-02-21, 00:24, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> I think it could be merged in patch 1/2 as it's part of enabling the use
> of multiple sources of information for FIE. Up to you!

Sure.

> >  static void amu_fie_setup(const struct cpumask *cpus)
> >  {
> > -	bool invariant;
> >  	int cpu;
> >  
> >  	/* We are already set since the last insmod of cpufreq driver */
> > @@ -257,25 +256,10 @@ static void amu_fie_setup(const struct cpumask *cpus)
> >  
> >  	cpumask_or(amu_fie_cpus, amu_fie_cpus, cpus);
> >  
> > -	invariant = topology_scale_freq_invariant();
> > -
> > -	/* We aren't fully invariant yet */
> > -	if (!invariant && !cpumask_equal(amu_fie_cpus, cpu_present_mask))
> > -		return;
> > -
> 
> You still need these checks, otherwise you could end up with only part
> of the CPUs setting a scale factor, when only part of the CPUs support
> AMUs and there is no cpufreq support for FIE.

Both supports_scale_freq_counters() and topology_scale_freq_invariant() take
care of this now and they will keep reporting the system as invariant until the
time all the CPUs have counters (in absence of cpufreq).

The topology_set_scale_freq_source() API is supposed to be called multiple
times, probably once for each policy and so I don't see a need of these checks
anymore.

> Small(ish) optimisation at the beginning of this function:
> 
>     if (cpumask_empty(&scale_freq_counters_mask))
>         scale_freq_invariant = topology_scale_freq_invariant();
> 
> This will save you a call to rebuild_sched_domains_energy(), which is
> quite expensive, when cpufreq supports FIE and we also have counters.

Good Point.

> After comments addressed,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>

Thanks.

> Tested-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>

Just out of curiosity, what exactly did you test and what was the setup ? :)

-- 
viresh

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