From: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3 0/2] cpufreq: ondemand: add AMD specific powersave bias
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:11:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364926304-1799-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com> (raw)
This patchset adds AMD specific powersave bias function to the ondemand
governor; which can be used to help ondemand governor make more power conscious
frequency change decisions based on feedback from hardware (availble on AMD
Family 16h and above).
Hardware feedback tells software how "sensitive" to frequency changes the
workloads are. CPU-bound workloads will be more sensitive -- they will
perform better as frequency increases. Memory/IO-bound workloads will be less
sensitive -- they will not necessarily perform better as frequnecy increases.
This patchset was compared against ondemand governor without powersave bias
and did not show any performance degradation on CPU-bound workloads such as
kernbench and unixbench. While saving power on Memory-bound workloads such as
stream.
V3:
* Added to CPUID bit to cpufeature.h
* Added MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to autoload this driver.
* Other small changes per feedback from:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/2/349
V2:
* Added proper include files to amd_freq_sensitivity.c
* Only register powersave_bias_target function pointer and not the entire
od_ops.
Jacob Shin (2):
cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target handler to be
registered
cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for
ondemand governor
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 3 +-
drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86 | 17 ++++
drivers/cpufreq/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/cpufreq/amd_freq_sensitivity.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h | 3 +
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 32 +++++--
7 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/cpufreq/amd_freq_sensitivity.c
--
1.7.9.5
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 18:11 Jacob Shin [this message]
2013-04-02 18:11 ` [PATCH V3 1/2] cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target handler to be registered Jacob Shin
2013-04-02 19:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-03 5:12 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-02 18:11 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for ondemand governor Jacob Shin
2013-04-02 19:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-02 20:03 ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-02 20:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-02 20:51 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-04-02 21:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-03 16:53 ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-03 17:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-03 17:17 ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-03 17:30 ` Borislav Petkov
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