From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162686AbbKTMcp (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:32:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53477 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbbKTMcm (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:32:42 -0500 From: Prarit Bhargava To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Prarit Bhargava , Srinivas Pandruvada , Len Brown , Alexandra Yates , Kristen Carlson Accardi , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Viresh Kumar , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2 v2] cpufreq, intel_pstate, Fix rounding errors Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:32:35 -0500 Message-Id: <1448022757-7856-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a Intel (6,63) processor with a "marketing" frequency (from /proc/cpuinfo) of 2100MHz, and a max turbo frequency of 2600MHz. I can execute cpupower frequency-set -g powersave --min 1200MHz --max 2100MHz and the max_freq_pct is set to 80. When adding load to the system I noticed that the cpu frequency only reached 2000MHZ and not 2100MHz as expected. I wrote a little test program to set the frequencies in decrements of 100MHz and compared the targeted frequency (the frequency set through the cpupower command) and the actual frequency (from /proc/cpuinfo), as well as dumping out the value of the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL. Target Achieved Difference MSR(0x199) 3300 2900 -400 0x1e00 3200 2900 -300 0x1e00 3100 2900 -200 0x1e00 3000 2900 -100 0x1d00 2900 2800 -100 0x1c00 2800 2700 -100 0x1b00 2700 2600 -100 0x1a00 2600 2500 -100 0x1900 2500 2400 -100 0x1800 2400 2300 -100 0x1700 2300 2200 -100 0x1600 2200 2100 -100 0x1500 2100 2000 -100 0x1400 2000 1900 -100 0x1300 1900 1800 -100 0x1200 1800 1700 -100 0x1100 1700 1600 -100 0x1000 1600 1500 -100 0xf00 1500 1400 -100 0xe00 1400 1300 -100 0xd00 1300 1200 -100 0xc00 1200 1200 0 0xc00 As can be seen the frequencies are consistently off by 100MHz. After some examination I found a rounding error in intel_pstate_set_policy() for the calculation of limits->max_policy_pct which needs to be rounded up to the nearest percentage point. For example, setting a frequency of 2100MHz on this system results in limits->max_policy_pct = ((2100 * 100) / 2600) = 80. However, ((2100 * 100) / 2600) is actually 80.7, or 81. This is fixed by expanding the calculation an extra decimal point and rounding to the nearest percentage point. A second rounding error was found in the calculation of limits->max_perf in intel_pstate_set_policy(), which is used to calculate the max and min pstate values in intel_pstate_get_min_max(). In this case, limits->max_perf is truncated to 2 hex digits such that, for example, 0x169 was incorrectly truncated to 0x16 instead of 0x17. This resulted in the pstate being set one level too low. After applying these two fixes we consistently reach the targeted frequency. Target Achieved Difference MSR(0x199) 3300 2900 -400 0x1e00 3200 2900 -300 0x1e00 3100 2900 -200 0x1e00 3000 2900 -100 0x1d00 2900 2900 0 0x1d00 2800 2800 0 0x1c00 2700 2700 0 0x1b00 2600 2600 0 0x1a00 2500 2500 0 0x1900 2400 2400 0 0x1800 2300 2300 0 0x1700 2200 2200 0 0x1600 2100 2100 0 0x1500 2000 2000 0 0x1400 1900 1900 0 0x1300 1800 1800 0 0x1200 1700 1700 0 0x1100 1600 1600 0 0x1000 1500 1500 0 0xf00 1400 1400 0 0xe00 1300 1300 0 0xd00 1200 1200 0 0xc00 Additional tests were run on a (6,78) with HWP enabled and a (6,79) system. Testing on both systems showed that the problem was resolved. Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada Cc: Len Brown Cc: Alexandra Yates Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava [v2]: Separate into two patches, and rebase onto git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git linux-next Prarit Bhargava (2): cpufreq, intel_pstate, Fix limits->max_policy_pct rounding error cpufreq, intel_pstate, fix limits->max_perf rounding error drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) -- 1.8.3.1