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David C Niemi
3f78a9f7fc [CPUFREQ] add sampling_down_factor tunable to improve ondemand performance
Adds a new global tunable, sampling_down_factor.  Set to 1 it makes no
changes from existing behavior, but set to greater than 1 (e.g. 100)
it acts as a multiplier for the scheduling interval for reevaluating
load when the CPU is at its top speed due to high load.  This improves
performance by reducing the overhead of load evaluation and helping
the CPU stay at its top speed when truly busy, rather than shifting
back and forth in speed.  This tunable has no effect on behavior at
lower speeds/lower CPU loads.

This patch is against 2.6.36-rc6.

This patch should help solve kernel bug 19672 "ondemand is slow".

Signed-off-by: David Niemi <dniemi@verisign.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
CC: Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher@gmail.com>
CC: <cpufreq-list@vger.kernel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-10-22 11:44:47 -04:00
Jocelyn Falempe
a665df9d51 [CPUFREQ] ondemand: don't synchronize sample rate unless multiple cpus present
For UP systems this is not required, and results in a more consistent
sample interval.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jocelyn.falempe@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 13:47:04 -04:00
Mike Chan
00e299fff3 [CPUFREQ] ondemand: Refactor frequency increase code
Make simpler to read and call.

*** v3 - Always call when powersave_bias is enabled.

Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 13:47:04 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
07d77759c9 Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>
  Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
  x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
  x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
  x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
  x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
  x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
  x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
  x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
  x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
  x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
  x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
  x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
  cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
  powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
  x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
  x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
  powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
  x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
2010-05-18 08:49:13 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
19379b1181 ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable
Pavel Machek pointed out that not all CPUs have an efficient
idle at high frequency. Specifically, older Intel and various
AMD cpus would get a higher powerusage when copying files from
USB.

Mike Chan pointed out that the same is true for various ARM
chips as well.

Thomas Renninger suggested to make this a sysfs tunable with a
reasonable default.

This patch adds a sysfs tunable for the new behavior, and uses
a very simple function to determine a reasonable default,
depending on the CPU vendor/type.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082651.46914d04@infradead.org>
[ minor tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09 19:35:27 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
6b8fcd9029 ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy
The ondemand cpufreq governor uses CPU busy time (e.g. not-idle
time) as a measure for scaling the CPU frequency up or down.
If the CPU is busy, the CPU frequency scales up, if it's idle,
the CPU frequency scales down. Effectively, it uses the CPU busy
time as proxy variable for the more nebulous "how critical is
performance right now" question.

This algorithm falls flat on its face in the light of workloads
where you're alternatingly disk and CPU bound, such as the ever
popular "git grep", but also things like startup of programs and
maildir using email clients... much to the chagarin of Andrew
Morton.

This patch changes the ondemand algorithm to count iowait time
as busy, not idle, time. As shown in the breakdown cases above,
iowait is performance critical often, and by counting iowait,
the proxy variable becomes a more accurate representation of the
"how critical is performance" question.

The problem and fix are both verified with the "perf timechar"
tool.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100509082606.3d9f00d0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09 19:35:27 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
6dad2a2964 cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
Multiple modules used to define those which are with identical
functionality and were needlessly replicated among the different cpufreq
drivers. Push them into the header and remove duplication.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270065406-1814-7-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-04-09 14:07:56 -07:00
Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com
1dbf58881f [CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits
Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy->min or above policy->max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.

But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy->min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
2010-01-13 10:55:16 -05:00
Pallipadi, Venkatesh
54c9a35d9f [CPUFREQ] Resolve time unit thinko in ondemand/conservative govs
ondemand and conservative governors are messing up time units in the
code path where NO_HZ is not enabled and ignore_nice is set. The walltime
idletime stored is in jiffies and nice time calculation is happening in
microseconds.

The problem was reported and diagnosed by Alexander here.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125752550404513&w=2

The patch below fixes this thinko.

Reported-by: Alexander Miller <Miller@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Miller <Miller@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-11-17 23:15:04 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
714af06938 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix NULL ptr regression in powernow-k8
  [CPUFREQ] Create a blacklist for processors that should not load the acpi-cpufreq module.
  [CPUFREQ] Powernow-k8: Enable more than 2 low P-states
  [CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand - Use global sysfs dir for tuning settings
  [CPUFREQ] Introduce global, not per core: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq
  [CPUFREQ] Bail out of cpufreq_add_dev if the link for a managed CPU got created
  [CPUFREQ] Factor out policy setting from cpufreq_add_dev
  [CPUFREQ] Factor out interface creation from cpufreq_add_dev
  [CPUFREQ] Factor out symlink creation from cpufreq_add_dev
  [CPUFREQ] cleanup up -ENOMEM handling in cpufreq_add_dev
  [CPUFREQ] Reduce scope of cpu_sys_dev in cpufreq_add_dev
  [CPUFREQ] update Doc for cpuinfo_cur_freq and scaling_cur_freq
2009-09-18 09:16:57 -07:00
Thomas Renninger
0e625ac153 [CPUFREQ] ondemand - Use global sysfs dir for tuning settings
Ondemand has only global variables for userspace tunings via sysfs.
But they were exposed per CPU which wrongly implies to the user that
his settings are applied per cpu. Also locking sysfs against concurrent
access won't be necessary anymore after deprecation time.

This means the ondemand config dir is moved:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ondemand ->
     /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand

The old files will still exist, but reading or writing to them will
result in one (printk_once) deprecation msg to syslog per file.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:18 -04:00
Tejun Heo
384be2b18a Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	mm/percpu.c

Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids.  As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 14:45:31 +09:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
5a75c82828 [CPUFREQ] Cleanup locking in ondemand governor
Redesign the locking inside ondemand driver. Make dbs_mutex handle all the
global state changes inside the driver and invent a new percpu mutex
to serialize percpu timer and frequency limit change.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-07-06 21:38:28 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
7d26e2d5e2 [CPUFREQ] Eliminate the recent lockdep warnings in cpufreq
Commit b14893a62c although it was very
much needed to properly cleanup ondemand timer, opened-up a can of worms
related to locking dependencies in cpufreq.

Patch here defines the need for dbs_mutex and cleans up its usage in
ondemand governor. This also resolves the lockdep warnings reported here

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/01925.html
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.0/00820.html

and few others..

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-07-06 21:38:27 -04:00
Tejun Heo
245b2e70ea percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions
Percpu variable definition is about to be updated such that all percpu
symbols including the static ones must be unique.  Update percpu
variable definitions accordingly.

* as,cfq: rename ioc_count uniquely

* cpufreq: rename cpu_dbs_info uniquely

* xen: move nesting_count out of xen_evtchn_do_upcall() and rename it

* mm: move ratelimits out of balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() and
  rename it

* ipv4,6: rename cookie_scratch uniquely

* x86 perf_counter: rename prev_left to pmc_prev_left, irq_entry to
  pmc_irq_entry and nmi_entry to pmc_nmi_entry

* perf_counter: rename disable_count to perf_disable_count

* ftrace: rename test_event_disable to ftrace_test_event_disable

* kmemleak: rename test_pointer to kmemleak_test_pointer

* mce: rename next_interval to mce_next_interval

[ Impact: percpu usage cleanups, no duplicate static percpu var names ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
Thomas Renninger
4f4d1ad6ee [CPUFREQ] Only set sampling_rate_max deprecated, sampling_rate_min is useful
Update the documentation accordingly.
Cleanup and use printk_once.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-06-15 11:49:41 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
cef9615a85 [CPUFREQ] ondemand: Uncouple minimal sampling rate from HZ in NO_HZ case
With this patch you have following minimal sampling rate restrictions:

Kernel restrictions:
If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, the limit is 10ms fixed.
If CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set or no_hz=off boot parameter is used, the
limits depend on the CONFIG_HZ option:
HZ=1000: min=20000us  (20ms)
HZ=250:  min=80000us  (80ms)
HZ=100:  min=200000us (200ms)

HW restrictions:
Do not sample/poll more often than HW latency * 100  exported by the low
level cpufreq HW driver

The higher value of above restrictions is the minimal sampling rate
that can be set (and can be seen via ondemand/sampling_rate_min sysfs file)

Default sampling rate still is HW latency * 1000, but this will now end
up in lower values on latest (Intel and AMD) hardware as these can switch
really fast and sampling rate mostly was limited to the 80ms or 200ms
(depending on whether HZ=250 or HZ=1000 is used).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Pallipadi Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-06-15 11:49:41 -04:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
b14893a62c [CPUFREQ] fix timer teardown in ondemand governor
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.  Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject		: cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date		: 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> 		  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
>

(updated changelog)

cpufreq fix timer teardown in ondemand governor

The problem is that dbs_timer_exit() uses cancel_delayed_work() when it should
use cancel_delayed_work_sync(). cancel_delayed_work() does not wait for the
workqueue handler to exit.

The ondemand governor does not seem to be affected because the
"if (!dbs_info->enable)" check at the beginning of the workqueue handler returns
immediately without rescheduling the work. The conservative governor in
2.6.30-rc has the same check as the ondemand governor, which makes things
usually run smoothly. However, if the governor is quickly stopped and then
started, this could lead to the following race :

dbs_enable could be reenabled and multiple do_dbs_timer handlers would run.
This is why a synchronized teardown is required.

The following patch applies to, at least, 2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1, 2.6.30-rc2.

Depends on patch
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: gregkh@suse.de
CC: stable@kernel.org
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-05-26 12:04:50 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
112124ab0a [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
Limit sampling rate to transition_latency * 100 or kernel limits.
If sampling_rate is tried to be set too low, set the lowest allowed value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
9411b4ef7f [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
Dave Jones
2b03f891ad [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:30 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
1ca3abdb6a [CPUFREQ] Make ignore_nice_load setting of ondemand work as expected.
ondemand micro-accounting of idle time changes broke ignore_nice_load
sysfs setting due to a thinko in the code.

The bug entry:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12310

Reported-by: Jim Bray <jimsantelmo@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-05 12:25:26 -05:00
Rusty Russell
835481d9bc cpumask: convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t
Impact: use new cpumask API to reduce memory usage

This is part of an effort to reduce structure sizes for machines
configured with large NR_CPUS.  cpumask_t gets replaced by
cpumask_var_t, which is either struct cpumask[1] (small NR_CPUS) or
struct cpumask * (large NR_CPUS).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-06 09:05:31 +01:00
Andrea Righi
4f6e6b9f97 [CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
Use get_cpu()/put_cpu() in cpufreq_ondemand init routine, instead of
smp_processor_id() to avoid the following BUG:

[   35.313118] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code=: modprobe/4952
[   35.313132] caller is cpufreq_gov_dbs_init+0xa/0x8f [cpufreq_ondemand]
[   35.313140] Pid: 4952, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 #23
[   35.313145] Call Trace:
[   35.313158]  [<ffffffff80361ff7>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xd7/0xe0
[   35.313167]  [<ffffffffa010800a>] cpufreq_gov_dbs_init+0xa/0x8f [cpufreq_ondemand]
[   35.313176]  [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x160
[   35.313185]  [<ffffffff804768c5>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xe5/0x190
[   35.313195]  [<ffffffff8026236a>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xca/0x140
[   35.313205]  [<ffffffff8026ef4c>] sys_init_module+0xdc/0x210
[   35.313212]  [<ffffffff8020b7cb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
Sven Wegener
c4d14bc0bb [CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
We don't need to export the governors for use as the default governor,
because the default governor will be built-in anyway and we can access
the symbol directly.

This also fixes the following sparse warnings:

drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c:578:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_conservative' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:582:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_ondemand' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_performance.c:39:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_performance' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_powersave.c:38:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_powersave' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c:190:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_userspace' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
8080091310 [CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor
Use get_cpu_idle_time_us() to get micro-accounted idle information.
This enables ondemand to get more accurate idle and busy timings
than the jiffy based calculation. As a result, we can decrease
the ondemand safety gaurd band from 80-10 to 95-3.

Results in more aggressive power savings.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
e9d95bf7eb [CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential
Use a parameter for down differential, instead of hardcoded 10%. Follow-on
patch changes the down-differential dynamically, based on whether
we are using idle micro-accounting or not.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
3430502d35 [CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting
Preparatory changes for doing idle micro-accounting in ondemand governor.
get_cpu_idle_time() gets extra parameter and returns idle time and also the
wall time that corresponds to the idle time measurement.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
c43aa3bd99 [CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination
Change the load calculation algorithm in ondemand to work well with software
coordination of frequency across the dependent cpus.

Multiply individual CPU utilization with the average freq of that logical CPU
during the measurement interval (using getavg call). And find the max CPU
utilization number in terms of CPU freq. That number is then used to
get to the target freq for next sampling interval.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:43 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
bf0b90e357 [CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
Add a cpu parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg(). This is needed for software
cpufreq coordination where policy->cpu may not be same as the CPU on which we
want to getavg frequency.

A follow-on patch will use this parameter to getavg freq from all cpus
in policy->cpus.

Change since last patch. Fix the offline/online and suspend/resume
oops reported by Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:43 -04:00
Akinobu Mita
888a794cac [CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error
Add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:43 -04:00
Mike Travis
068b12772a cpufreq: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate

Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 18:35:12 +02:00
Johannes Weiner
6915719b36 cpufreq: Initialise default governor before use
When the cpufreq driver starts up at boot time, it calls into the default
governor which might not be initialised yet.  This hurts when the
governor's worker function relies on memory that is not yet set up by its
init function.

This migrates all governors from module_init() to fs_initcall() when being
the default, as was already done in cpufreq_performance when it was the
only possible choice.  The performance governor is always initialized early
because it might be used as fallback even when not being the default.

Fixes at least one actual oops where ondemand is the default governor and
cpufreq_governor_dbs() uses the uninitialised kondemand_wq work-queue
during boot-time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-17 15:38:58 -08:00
Thomas Renninger
1c2562459f [CPUFREQ] allow ondemand and conservative cpufreq governors to be used as default
Depending on the transition latency of the HW for cpufreq switches, the
ondemand or conservative governor cannot be used with certain cpufreq
drivers.  Still the ondemand should be the default governor on a wide range
of systems.  This patch allows this and lets the governor fallback to the
performance governor at cpufreq driver load time, if the driver does not
support fast enough frequency switching.

Main benefit is that on e.g.  installation or other systems without
userspace support a working dynamic cpufreq support can be achieved on most
systems by simply loading the cpufreq driver.  This is especially essential
for recent x86(_64) laptop hardware which may rely on working dynamic
cpufreq OS support.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-04 18:40:57 -04:00
Venki Pallipadi
ea48761519 [CPUFREQ] ondemand: fix tickless accounting and software coordination bug
With tickless kernel and software coordination os P-states, ondemand
can look at wrong idle statistics. This can happen when ondemand sampling
is happening on CPU 0 and due to software coordination sampling also looks at
utilization of CPU 1. If CPU 1 is in tickless state at that moment, its idle
statistics will not be uptodate and CPU 0 thinks CPU 1 is idle for less
amount of time than it actually is.

This can be resolved by looking at all the busy times of CPUs, which is
accurate, even with tickless, and use that to determine idle time in a
round about way (total time - busy time).

Thanks to Arjan for originally reporting the ondemand bug on
Lenovo T61.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-06-21 12:57:53 -04:00
Venki Pallipadi
0af99b13c9 [CPUFREQ] ondemand: add a check to avoid negative load calculation
Due to rounding and inexact jiffy accounting, idle_ticks can sometimes
be higher than total_ticks. Make sure those cases are handled as
zero load case.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-06-21 12:57:53 -04:00
Venki Pallipadi
28287033e1 Add a new deferrable delayed work init
Add a new deferrable delayed work init.  This can be used to schedule work
that are 'unimportant' when CPU is idle and can be called later, when CPU
eventually comes out of idle.

Use this init in cpufreq ondemand governor.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
48ac3271e5 [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_ondemand.c: don't use _WORK_NAR
Looks like dbs_timer() is very careful wrt per_cpu(cpu_dbs_info),
and it doesn't need the help of WORK_STRUCT_NOAUTOREL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-20 14:23:43 -05:00
Dave Jones
c18a1483f4 [CPUFREQ] Whitespace fixup
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:03:51 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
56463b78cd [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor use new cpufreq rwsem locking in work callback
Eliminate flush_workqueue in cpufreq_governor(STOP) callpath. Using flush
there has a deadlock potential as in

http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0611.3/1223.html

Also, cleanup the locking issues with do_dbs_timer delayed_work callback.  As
it changes the CPU frequency using __cpufreq_target, it needs to have
policy_rwsem in write mode, which also protects it from hot plug.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:48 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
529af7a14f [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor restructure the work callback
Restructure the delayed_work callback in ondemand.

This eliminates the need for smp_processor_id in the callback function and
also helps in proper locking and avoiding flush_workqueue when stopping the
governor (done in subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Dave Jones
c120069779 [CPUFREQ] Remove hotplug cpu crap
The hotplug CPU locking in cpufreq is horrendous.  No-one seems to care
enough to fix it, so just remove it so that the 99.9% of the real world
users of this code can use cpufreq without being bothered by warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Dave Jones
c4366889dd Merge ../linus
Conflicts:

	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2006-12-12 17:41:41 -05:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Gautham R Shenoy
e08f5f5bb5 [CPUFREQ] Fix coding style issues in cpufreq.
Clean up cpufreq subsystem to fix coding style issues and to improve
the readability.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-11-06 19:16:34 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
914f7c31b0 [CPUFREQ] handle sysfs errors
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-21 01:33:12 -04:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
dfde5d62ed [CPUFREQ][8/8] acpi-cpufreq: Add support for freq feedback from hardware
Enable ondemand governor and acpi-cpufreq to use IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSR
to get active frequency feedback for the last sampling interval. This will
make ondemand take right frequency decisions when hardware coordination of
frequency is going on.

Without APERF/MPERF, ondemand can take wrong decision at times due
to underlying hardware coordination or TM2.
Example:
* CPU 0 and CPU 1 are hardware cooridnated.
* CPU 1 running at highest frequency.
* CPU 0 was running at highest freq. Now ondemand reduces it to
  some intermediate frequency based on utilization.
* Due to underlying hardware coordination with other CPU 1, CPU 0 continues to
  run at highest frequency (as long as other CPU is at highest).
* When ondemand samples CPU 0 again next time, without actual frequency
  feedback from APERF/MPERF, it will think that previous frequency change
  was successful and can go to wrong target frequency. This is because it
  thinks that utilization it has got this sampling interval is when running at
  intermediate frequency, rather than actual highest frequency.

More information about IA32_APERF IA32_MPERF MSR:
Refer to IA-32 Intel® Architecture Software Developer's Manual at
http://developer.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-15 19:57:11 -04:00
Dave Jones
3906f4edee [CPUFREQ] Fix sparse warning in ondemand
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:323:2: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-05 17:15:47 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
b5ecf60fe6 [CPUFREQ] make drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:powersave_bias_target() static
This patch makes the needlessly global powersave_bias_target() static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-14 01:18:54 -04:00
Alexey Starikovskiy
05ca0350e8 [CPUFREQ][2/2] ondemand: updated add powersave_bias tunable
ondemand selects the minimum frequency that can retire
a workload with negligible idle time -- ideally resulting in the highest
performance/power efficiency with negligible performance impact.

But on some systems and some workloads, this algorithm
is more performance biased than necessary, and
de-tuning it a bit to allow some performance impact
can save measurable power.

This patch adds a "powersave_bias" tunable to ondemand
to allow it to reduce its target frequency by a specified percent.

By default, the powersave_bias is 0 and has no effect.
powersave_bias is in units of 0.1%, so it has an effective range
of 1 through 1000, resulting in 0.1% to 100% impact.

In practice, users will not be able to detect a difference between
0.1% increments, but 1.0% increments turned out to be too large.
Also, the max value of 1000 (100%) would simply peg the system
in its deepest power saving P-state, unless the processor really has
a hardware P-state at 0Hz:-)

For example, If ondemand requests 2.0GHz based on utilization,
and powersave_bias=100, this code will knock 10% off the target
and seek  a target of 1.8GHz instead of 2.0GHz until the
next sampling.  If 1.8 is an exact match with an hardware frequency
we use it, otherwise we average our time between the frequency
next higher than 1.8 and next lower than 1.8.

Note that a user or administrative program can change powersave_bias
at run-time depending on how they expect the system to be used.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-11 17:59:57 -04:00