From: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
To: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
lenb@kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org, viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
ricardo.neri@intel.com, tim.c.chen@intel.com,
peterz@infradead.org, arjan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: intel_pstate: ITMT support for overclocked system
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:19:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2a18288-fa7c-02fb-6376-730777823637@MichaelLarabel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211119051801.1432724-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
On 11/18/21 23:18, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On systems with overclocking enabled, CPPC Highest Performance can be
> hard coded to 0xff. In this case even if we have cores with different
> highest performance, ITMT can't be enabled as the current implementation
> depends on CPPC Highest Performance.
>
> On such systems we can use MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES maximum performance field
> when CPPC.Highest Performance is 0xff.
>
> Due to legacy reasons, we can't solely depend on MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES as
> in some older systems CPPC Highest Performance is the only way to identify
> different performing cores.
>
> Reported-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> This patch was tested on one Alder Lake system by enabling Overclocking.
> Once overclocking is enabled, we see
> $cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/acpi_cppc/highest_perf
> 255 (P-Cores)
> 255 (P-Cores
> ...
> ...
> 255 (E-Cores)
> 255 (E-Cores)
> The real max performance for CPUs on this system was
> 0x40 for P-cores and 0x26 for E-cores.
> With this change applied we will see
> $cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_itmt_enabled
> 1
> The resultant ITMT priorities
> for P-core 0x40, P-core HT sibling 0x10 and E-core 0x26
With this patch I can confirm that now sched_itmt_enabled = 1 and
correct highest_perf with the ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI board on
the latest BIOS. Thanks.
Tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Michael
>
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> index 815df3daae9d..3106e62ffb25 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> @@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ static void intel_pstste_sched_itmt_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
>
> static DECLARE_WORK(sched_itmt_work, intel_pstste_sched_itmt_work_fn);
>
> +#define CPPC_MAX_PERF U8_MAX
> +
> static void intel_pstate_set_itmt_prio(int cpu)
> {
> struct cppc_perf_caps cppc_perf;
> @@ -348,6 +350,14 @@ static void intel_pstate_set_itmt_prio(int cpu)
> if (ret)
> return;
>
> + /*
> + * On some systems with overclocking enabled, CPPC.highest_perf is hardcoded to 0xff.
> + * In this case we can't use CPPC.highest_perf to enable ITMT.
> + * In this case we can look at MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES bits [8:0] to decide.
> + */
> + if (cppc_perf.highest_perf == CPPC_MAX_PERF)
> + cppc_perf.highest_perf = HWP_HIGHEST_PERF(READ_ONCE(all_cpu_data[cpu]->hwp_cap_cached));
> +
> /*
> * The priorities can be set regardless of whether or not
> * sched_set_itmt_support(true) has been called and it is valid to
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-19 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-19 5:18 [PATCH] cpufreq: intel_pstate: ITMT support for overclocked system Srinivas Pandruvada
2021-11-19 11:19 ` Michael Larabel [this message]
2021-11-19 13:27 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2021-11-23 13:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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