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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:17:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180131101710.GM2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4353713.vEOq6OHvJN@aspire.rjw.lan>

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:22:49AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:15:31 PM CET Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > IA32_HWP_REQUEST has "Minimum_Performance", "Maximum_Performance" and
> > "Desired_Performance" fields which can be used to give explicit
> > frequency hints. And we really _should_ be doing that.
> > 
> > Because, esp. in this scenario; a task migrating; the hardware really
> > can't do anything sensible, whereas the OS _knows_.
> 
> But IA32_HWP_REQUEST is not a cheap MSR to write to.

That just means we might need to throttle writing to it, like it already
does for the regular pstate (PERF_CTRL) msr in any case (also, is that a
cheap msr?)

Not touching it at all seems silly.

But now that you made me look, intel_pstate_hwp_set() is horrible crap.
You should _never_ do things like:

  rdmsr_on_cpu()
  /* frob value */
  wrmsr_on_cpu()

That's insane.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30 10:45 [PATCH 0/4] Reduce migrations and unnecessary spreading of load to multiple CPUs Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Remove unnecessary parameters from wake_affine_idle Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:55   ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Remove unnecessary parameters from wake_affine_idle() tip-bot for Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched/fair: Restructure wake_affine to return a CPU id Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:56   ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Restructure wake_affine*() " tip-bot for Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/fair: Do not migrate if the prev_cpu is idle Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:56   ` [tip:sched/urgent] " tip-bot for Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 11:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 12:57     ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 13:25         ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:40           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 14:06             ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-31  9:22         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-01-31 10:17           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-01-31 11:54             ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-31 17:44             ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-01  9:11               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-01  7:50             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-01  9:11               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-01 13:18                 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-02 11:00                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-02 14:54                     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-02 19:48                       ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-02 20:01                         ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-05 11:10                           ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-05 17:04                             ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-05 17:50                               ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-04  8:42                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-04  8:38                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-02 11:42                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-02 12:46                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 12:55                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 14:08                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-03 16:30                       ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-05 10:44                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-05 10:58                           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-02 12:58                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 13:27                   ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:15       ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-30 13:25         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 13:35           ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-30 11:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 12:59     ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 13:18       ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:56   ` [tip:sched/urgent] " tip-bot for Mel Gorman

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