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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 609E6C4361B for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FF6207A0 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2503050AbgLNUL3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:11:29 -0500 Received: from cloudserver094114.home.pl ([79.96.170.134]:49774 "EHLO cloudserver094114.home.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2502867AbgLNUKm (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:10:42 -0500 Received: from 89-77-60-66.dynamic.chello.pl (89.77.60.66) (HELO kreacher.localnet) by serwer1319399.home.pl (79.96.170.134) with SMTP (IdeaSmtpServer 0.83.530) id b3bf987f1bf494ed; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:09:41 +0100 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Linux PM Cc: LKML , Viresh Kumar , Srinivas Pandruvada , Peter Zijlstra , Doug Smythies , Giovanni Gherdovich Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] cpufreq: Allow drivers to receive more information from the governor Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:01:52 +0100 Message-ID: <3827230.0GnL3RTcl1@kreacher> In-Reply-To: <20360841.iInq7taT2Z@kreacher> References: <20360841.iInq7taT2Z@kreacher> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, The timing of this is not perfect (sorry about that), but here's a refresh of this series. The majority of the previous cover letter still applies: On Monday, December 7, 2020 5:25:38 PM CET Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > This is based on the RFC posted a few days ago: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/1817571.2o5Kk4Ohv2@kreacher/ > > Using intel_pstate in the passive mode with HWP enabled, in particular under > the schedutil governor, is still kind of problematic, because it has to assume > that it should not allow the frequency to fall below the one requested by the > governor. For this reason, it translates the target frequency into HWP.REQ.MIN > which generally causes the processor to run a bit too fast. > > Moreover, this allows the HWP algorithm to use any frequency between the target > one and HWP.REQ.MAX that corresponds to the policy max limit and some workloads > cause it to go for the max turbo frequency prematurely which hurts energy- > efficiency without improving performance, even though the schedutil governor > itself would not allow the frequency to ramp up so fast. > > This patch series attempts to improve the situation by introducing a new driver > callback allowing the driver to receive more information from the governor. In > particular, this allows the min (required) and target (desired) performance > levels to be passed to it and those can be used to give better hints to the > hardware. In this second revision there are three patches (one preparatory patch for schedutil that hasn't changed since the v1, the introduction of the new callback and schedutil changes in patch [2/3] and the intel_pstate changes in patch [3/3] that are the same as before. Please see patch changelogs for details. Thanks!