From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] powerpc/sysfs: Show idle_purr and idle_spurr for every CPU
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:50:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1582625516.nbsanohdks.naveen@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200224051447.GC12846@in.ibm.com>
Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:50:12AM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
>> > index 80a676d..5b4b450 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
>> > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>> > #include <asm/smp.h>
>> > #include <asm/pmc.h>
>> > #include <asm/firmware.h>
>> > +#include <asm/idle.h>
>> > #include <asm/svm.h>
>> >
>> > #include "cacheinfo.h"
>> > @@ -733,6 +734,42 @@ static void create_svm_file(void)
>> > }
>> > #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_SVM */
>> >
>> > +static void read_idle_purr(void *val)
>> > +{
>> > + u64 *ret = (u64 *)val;
>>
>> No cast from void* needed.
>
> Will fix this. Thanks.
>
>>
>>
>> > +
>> > + *ret = read_this_idle_purr();
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +static ssize_t idle_purr_show(struct device *dev,
>> > + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>> > +{
>> > + struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, dev);
>> > + u64 val;
>> > +
>> > + smp_call_function_single(cpu->dev.id, read_idle_purr, &val, 1);
>> > + return sprintf(buf, "%llx\n", val);
>> > +}
>> > +static DEVICE_ATTR(idle_purr, 0400, idle_purr_show, NULL);
>> > +
>> > +static void read_idle_spurr(void *val)
>> > +{
>> > + u64 *ret = (u64 *)val;
>> > +
>> > + *ret = read_this_idle_spurr();
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +static ssize_t idle_spurr_show(struct device *dev,
>> > + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>> > +{
>> > + struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, dev);
>> > + u64 val;
>> > +
>> > + smp_call_function_single(cpu->dev.id, read_idle_spurr, &val, 1);
>> > + return sprintf(buf, "%llx\n", val);
>> > +}
>> > +static DEVICE_ATTR(idle_spurr, 0400, idle_spurr_show, NULL);
>>
>> It's regrettable that we have to wake up potentially idle CPUs in order
>> to derive correct idle statistics for them, but I suppose the main user
>> (lparstat) of these interfaces already is causing this to happen by
>> polling the existing per-cpu purr and spurr attributes.
>>
>> So now lparstat will incur at minimum four syscalls and four IPIs per
>> CPU per polling interval -- one for each of purr, spurr, idle_purr and
>> idle_spurr. Correct?
>
> Yes, it is unforunate that we will end up making four syscalls and
> generating IPI noise, and this is something that I discussed with
> Naveen and Kamalesh. We have the following two constraints:
>
> 1) These values of PURR and SPURR required are per-cpu. Hence putting
> them in lparcfg is not an option.
>
> 2) sysfs semantics encourages a single value per key, the key being
> the sysfs-file. Something like the following would have made far more
> sense.
>
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/purr_spurr_accounting
> purr:A
> idle_purr:B
> spurr:C
> idle_spurr:D
>
> There are some sysfs files which allow something like this. Eg:
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
>
> Thoughts on any other alternatives?
Umm... procfs?
/me ducks
>
>
>>
>> At some point it's going to make sense to batch sampling of remote CPUs'
>> SPRs.
How did you mean this? It looks like we first need to provide a separate
user interface, since with the existing sysfs interface providing
separate files, I am not sure if we can batch such reads.
- Naveen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-21 5:18 [PATCH v2 0/5] Track and expose idle PURR and SPURR ticks Gautham R. Shenoy
2020-02-21 5:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc: Move idle_loop_prolog()/epilog() functions to header file Gautham R. Shenoy
2020-02-21 15:03 ` Nathan Lynch
2020-02-24 4:55 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2020-03-06 17:06 ` Nathan Lynch
2020-02-21 5:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] powerpc/idle: Add accessor function to always read latest idle PURR Gautham R. Shenoy
2020-02-21 5:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] powerpc/pseries: Account for SPURR ticks on idle CPUs Gautham R. Shenoy
2020-02-21 16:47 ` Nathan Lynch
2020-02-24 5:05 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2020-02-21 5:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] powerpc/sysfs: Show idle_purr and idle_spurr for every CPU Gautham R. Shenoy
2020-02-21 16:50 ` Nathan Lynch
2020-02-24 5:14 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2020-02-25 10:20 ` Naveen N. Rao [this message]
2020-03-06 17:03 ` Nathan Lynch
2020-03-06 17:35 ` Naveen N. Rao
2020-02-21 5:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Documentation: Document sysfs interfaces purr, spurr, idle_purr, idle_spurr Gautham R. Shenoy
2020-02-21 16:55 ` Nathan Lynch
2020-02-24 5:15 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2020-02-24 4:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Track and expose idle PURR and SPURR ticks Kamalesh Babulal
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