Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPUFreq: Implement per policy instances of governors

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:07:11PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> I don't have board right now to take the snapshot, but it would be
> like:
> 
> $ tree /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
> ├── affected_cpus
> ├── bios_limit
> ├── cpb
> ├── cpuinfo_cur_freq
> ├── cpuinfo_max_freq
> ├── cpuinfo_min_freq
> ├── cpuinfo_transition_latency
> ├── related_cpus
> ├── scaling_available_frequencies
> ├── scaling_available_governors
> ├── scaling_cur_freq
> ├── scaling_driver
> ├── scaling_governor
> ├── scaling_max_freq
> ├── scaling_min_freq
> ├── scaling_setspeed
> └── stats
>     ├── time_in_state
>     ├── total_trans
>     └── trans_table
> └── ondemand
>     ├── sampling_rate
>     ├── up_threshold
>     └── ignore_nice

So this is adding the current governor as a per-cpu thing.

> > One thing I've come to realize with the current interface is that if
> > you want to change stuff, you need to iterate over all cpus instead of
> > writing to a system-wide node.
> 
> Not really. Following is the way by which cpu/cpu*/cpufreq directories
> are created:

That's not what I meant - I meant from userspace:

for $i in $(grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{ print $3 }');
do
	echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/cpufreq/scaling_governor;
done

Instead of

echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/scaling_governor

which is hypothetical but sets it for the whole system without fuss.

[ … ]

> I want to control it over clock-domain, but can't get that in cpu/cpufreq/.
> Policies don't have numbers assigned to them.

So, give them names.

> So, i am working on ARM's big.LITTLE system where we have two
> clusters. One of A15s and other of A7s. Because of their different
> power ratings or performance figures, we need to have separate set of
> ondemand tunables for them. And hence this patch. Though this patch is
> required for any multi-cluster system.

So you want this (values after "="):

cpu/cpufreq/
|-> policy0
    |-> name		= A15
    |-> min_freq	= ...
    |-> max_freq	= ...
    |-> affected_cpus	= 0,1,2,...
    |-> ondemand
        |-> sampling_rate
	|-> up_threshold
	|-> ignore_nice
    ...
|-> policy1
    |-> name		= A7
    |-> min_freq	= ...
    |-> max_freq	= ...
    |-> affected_cpus	= n,n+1,n+2,...
    |-> performance
        |-> sampling_rate
	|-> up_threshold
	|-> ignore_nice
    ...

Other arches create other policies and that's it. If you need another
policy added to the set, you simply add 'policyN++' and that's it.

I think this is cleaner but whatever - I don't care that much. My
only strong concern is that this thing should be a Kconfig option and
optional for arches where it doesn't apply.

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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