From: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
To: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, agross@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Update offline CPUs per-cpu thermal pressure
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:13:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ef0ce1c-40c7-ad08-c7e8-5b1a8507508c@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be6fb99f-90bc-9ba1-b5a7-034b30734158@linaro.org>
On 10/11/21 10:17 PM, Thara Gopinath wrote:
>
>
> On 10/7/21 4:07 AM, Lukasz Luba wrote:
>> The thermal pressure signal gives information to the scheduler about
>> reduced CPU capacity due to thermal. It is based on a value stored in
>> a per-cpu 'thermal_pressure' variable. The online CPUs will get the
>> new value there, while the offline won't. Unfortunately, when the CPU
>> is back online, the value read from per-cpu variable might be wrong
>> (stale data). This might affect the scheduler decisions, since it
>> sees the CPU capacity differently than what is actually available.
>>
>> Fix it by making sure that all online+offline CPUs would get the
>> proper value in their per-cpu variable when there is throttling
>> or throttling is removed.
>>
>> Fixes: 275157b367f479 ("cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Add dcvs interrupt
>> support")
>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
>
> Thanks for the fix.
>
> Reviewed-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
>
Thank you for the review!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-15 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-07 8:07 [PATCH 0/5] Refactor thermal pressure update to avoid code duplication Lukasz Luba
2021-10-07 8:07 ` [PATCH 1/5] arch_topology: Introduce thermal pressure update function Lukasz Luba
2021-10-11 21:15 ` Thara Gopinath
2021-10-15 12:13 ` Lukasz Luba
2021-10-07 8:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] thermal: cpufreq_cooling: Use new " Lukasz Luba
2021-10-07 8:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Update offline CPUs per-cpu thermal pressure Lukasz Luba
2021-10-11 21:17 ` Thara Gopinath
2021-10-15 12:13 ` Lukasz Luba [this message]
2021-10-07 8:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Use new thermal pressure update function Lukasz Luba
2021-10-07 8:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] arch_topology: Remove unused topology_set_thermal_pressure() and related Lukasz Luba
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