Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] cpufreq/ondemand: Introduce op to customize mapping of load to frequency

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 23-09-16, 19:02, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Introduce op for ondemand governor that is used to map load to
> frequency. It allows a cpufreq driver to provide a specific mapping
> function if the generic function is not optimal for the driver.
> 
> Performance results (kernel compile with different number of jobs)
> based on 4.8.0-rc7 (with and w/o my patches on top) from
> an HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 system using pcc-cpufreq:
>  - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-4890 v2 @ 2.80GHz
>  - 60 CPUs, 128GB RAM
>  
>                     vanilla                  generic_map_load_to_freq function
>  # of jobs  user    sys   elapsed   % CPU      user    sys   elapsed   % CPU
>     2      445.44  110.51  272.99   203.00    445.56  111.22  273.35   203.00
>     4      444.41  126.20  142.81   399.00    445.61  126.10  143.12   399.00
>     8      483.04  150.58   82.19   770.40    483.51  150.84   82.17   771.40
>    16      626.81  185.01   55.00  1475.40    628.01  185.54   55.02  1477.80
>    32      816.72  204.39   37.26  2740.00    818.58  205.51   37.02  2765.40
>    64      406.59   51.12   14.04  3257.80    406.22   51.84   13.84  3308.80
>   120      413.00   48.39   14.36  3211.20    413.61   49.06   14.54  3181.00
> 
> Similar tests on another system using acpi_cpufreq didn't show
> significant performance differences between these two kernel versions.
> 
> Link: https://marc.info/?i=20160819121814.GA17296%40suselix.suse.de
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h |  5 +++++
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

NAK.

If we are absolutely required to hack it in some way, then I would
prefer your first patchset as the noise was limited to only your
driver.

We aren't going to provide such operations from the governors, sorry.

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viresh