From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux@arm.linux.org.uk, Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] arm, arm64, cpufreq: frequency- and cpu-invariant accounting support for task scheduler
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171004084114.GA6547@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170926164115.32367-1-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 05:41:05PM +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> For a more accurate (i.e. frequency- and cpu-invariant) accounting
> the task scheduler needs a frequency-scaling and on a heterogeneous
> system a cpu-scaling correction factor.
>
> This patch-set implements a Frequency Invariance Engine (FIE)
> based on the ratio of current frequency and maximum supported frequency
> (topology_get_freq_scale()) in the arch topology driver (arm, arm64) to
> provide such a frequency-scaling correction factor.
> This is a solution to get frequency-invariant accounting support for
> platforms without hardware-based performance tracking.
>
> The Cpu Invariance Engine (CIE) (topology_get_cpu_scale()) providing a
> cpu-scaling correction factor was already introduced by the "Fix issues
> and factorize arm/arm64 capacity information code" patch-set [1] which
> went into v4.13.
>
> This patch-set also enables the frequency- and cpu-invariant accounting
> support. Enabling here means to associate (wire) the task scheduler
> function name arch_scale_freq_capacity and arch_scale_cpu_capacity with
> the FIE and CIE function names from drivers/base/arch_topology.c. This
> replaces the scheduler's default FIE and CIE in kernel/sched/sched.h.
>
> v4: review results:
>
> There were no further comments during the v4 [2] review.
This patchset crosses a bunch of different subsystems, who do you
want/expect to be taking this through their tree?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-04 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-26 16:41 [PATCH v5 00/10] arm, arm64, cpufreq: frequency- and cpu-invariant accounting support for task scheduler Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] drivers base/arch_topology: free cpumask cpus_to_visit Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] cpufreq: provide default frequency-invariance setter function Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] cpufreq: arm_big_little: invoke " Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] cpufreq: dt: " Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] drivers base/arch_topology: provide frequency-invariant accounting support Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] drivers base/arch_topology: allow inlining cpu-invariant " Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] arm: wire frequency-invariant accounting support up to the task scheduler Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] arm: wire cpu-invariant " Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] arm64: wire frequency-invariant " Dietmar Eggemann
2017-09-26 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] arm64: wire cpu-invariant " Dietmar Eggemann
2017-10-04 8:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-10-04 12:28 ` [PATCH v5 00/10] arm, arm64, cpufreq: frequency- and cpu-invariant accounting support for " Rafael J. Wysocki
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