Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] CPUFREQ OPP's and Tegra30 support by tegra20-cpufreq driver

[Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>]

On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 19:59 +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

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> > - With "cpufreq-info -f" I could only observe like the top 3-4 OPPs
> > while it does not to go further down even when idling. Why could
> > that
> > be resp. what could cause this?
> 
> What cpufreq governor are you using?

ondemand

> Here is my 'cpufreq-info --stats' output from Tegra30 after a several
> minutes of idling after boot:
> 
> 408000:245884, 456000:445, 608000:251, 760000:151, 816000:82,
> 912000:75, 1000000:163  (561)
> 
> And full cpufreq-info:
> 
> cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
> Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
> analyzing CPU 0:
>    driver: tegra
>    CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
>    CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
> 1 2 3
>    maximum transition latency: 50.0 us.
>    hardware limits: 408 MHz - 1000 MHz
>    available frequency steps: 408 MHz, 456 MHz, 608 MHz, 760 MHz, 816
> MHz, 912 MHz, 1000 MHz
>    available cpufreq governors: conservative, userspace, powersave,
> ondemand, performance, schedutil
>    current policy: frequency should be within 408 MHz and 1000 MHz.
>                    The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to
> use
>                    within this range.
>    current CPU frequency is 608 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
>    cpufreq stats: 408 MHz:99.53%, 456 MHz:0.18%, 608 MHz:0.10%, 760
> MHz:0.06%, 816 MHz:0.03%, 912 MHz:0.03%, 1000 MHz:0.07%  (563)
> analyzing CPU 1:
>    driver: tegra
>    CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
>    CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
> 1 2 3
>    maximum transition latency: 50.0 us.
>    hardware limits: 408 MHz - 1000 MHz
>    available frequency steps: 408 MHz, 456 MHz, 608 MHz, 760 MHz, 816
> MHz, 912 MHz, 1000 MHz
>    available cpufreq governors: conservative, userspace, powersave,
> ondemand, performance, schedutil
>    current policy: frequency should be within 408 MHz and 1000 MHz.
>                    The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to
> use
>                    within this range.
>    current CPU frequency is 608 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
>    cpufreq stats: 408 MHz:99.53%, 456 MHz:0.18%, 608 MHz:0.10%, 760
> MHz:0.06%, 816 MHz:0.03%, 912 MHz:0.03%, 1000 MHz:0.07%  (563)
> analyzing CPU 2:
>    driver: tegra
>    CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
>    CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
> 1 2 3
>    maximum transition latency: 50.0 us.
>    hardware limits: 408 MHz - 1000 MHz
>    available frequency steps: 408 MHz, 456 MHz, 608 MHz, 760 MHz, 816
> MHz, 912 MHz, 1000 MHz
>    available cpufreq governors: conservative, userspace, powersave,
> ondemand, performance, schedutil
>    current policy: frequency should be within 408 MHz and 1000 MHz.
>                    The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to
> use
>                    within this range.
>    current CPU frequency is 608 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
>    cpufreq stats: 408 MHz:99.53%, 456 MHz:0.18%, 608 MHz:0.10%, 760
> MHz:0.06%, 816 MHz:0.03%, 912 MHz:0.03%, 1000 MHz:0.07%  (563)
> analyzing CPU 3:
>    driver: tegra
>    CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
>    CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
> 1 2 3
>    maximum transition latency: 50.0 us.
>    hardware limits: 408 MHz - 1000 MHz
>    available frequency steps: 408 MHz, 456 MHz, 608 MHz, 760 MHz, 816
> MHz, 912 MHz, 1000 MHz
>    available cpufreq governors: conservative, userspace, powersave,
> ondemand, performance, schedutil
>    current policy: frequency should be within 408 MHz and 1000 MHz.
>                    The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to
> use
>                    within this range.
>    current CPU frequency is 608 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
>    cpufreq stats: 408 MHz:99.53%, 456 MHz:0.18%, 608 MHz:0.10%, 760
> MHz:0.06%, 816 MHz:0.03%, 912 MHz:0.03%, 1000 MHz:0.07%  (563)
> 
> 
> > - Unfortunately "cpufreq-info --stats" currently does not seem to
> > output anything. Would that require something special to be
> > implemented?
> 
> Make sure that CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT is enabled in the kernels config.

Yes, sorry. That was it, of course. Just wondering why that one isn't
enabled in tegra_defconfig...

> > Other than that you may add the following to the whole series:
> > 
> > Tested-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>
> 
> Thank you very much!

You are very welcome. Thank you!