Re: [PATCH v4 20/24] PM / devfreq: tegra30: Optimize upper average watermark selection

Chanwoo Choi
2019-07-19T02:03:06Z

On 19. 7. 19. 오전 10:59, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> В Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:36:30 +0900
> Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> пишет:
>
>> On 19. 7. 8. 오전 7:32, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> I noticed that CPU may be crossing the dependency threshold very
>>> frequently for some workloads and this results in a lot of
>>> interrupts which could be avoided if MCALL client is keeping actual
>>> EMC frequency at a higher rate.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c
>>> b/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c index
>>> c3cf87231d25..4d582809acb6 100644 ---
>>> a/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c +++
>>> b/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c @@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ static void
>>> tegra_actmon_get_lower_upper(struct tegra_devfreq *tegra, }
>>>
>>> static void tegra_devfreq_update_avg_wmark(struct tegra_devfreq
>>> *tegra,
>>> - struct
>>> tegra_devfreq_device *dev)
>>> + struct
>>> tegra_devfreq_device *dev,
>>> + unsigned long freq)
>>> {
>>> unsigned long avg_threshold, lower, upper;
>>>
>>> @@ -323,6 +324,15 @@ static void
>>> tegra_devfreq_update_avg_wmark(struct tegra_devfreq *tegra,
>>> avg_threshold = dev->config->avg_dependency_threshold;
>>> avg_threshold = avg_threshold * ACTMON_SAMPLING_PERIOD;
>>> + /*
>>> + * If cumulative EMC frequency selection is higher than the
>>> + * device's, then there is no need to set upper watermark
>>> to
>>> + * a lower value because it will result in unnecessary
>>> upper
>>> + * interrupts.
>>> + */
>>> + if (freq * ACTMON_SAMPLING_PERIOD > upper)
>>> + upper = freq * ACTMON_SAMPLING_PERIOD;
>>
>> Also, 'upper value is used on the patch5. You can combine this code
>> to patch5 or if this patch depends on the cpu notifier, you can
>> combine it to the patch of adding cpu notifier without separate patch.
>
> Well okay, I'll try to squash some of the patches in the next revision.
> Usually I'm receiving comments in the other direction, asking to
> separate patches into smaller changes ;) So that's more a personal
> preference of each maintainer, I'd say.
>

Right. We have to make the patch with atomic attribute.
But, if there are patches which touch the same code
in the same patchset. We can squash or do refactorig
of this code.

And also, if possible, I'd like you to make the patch
list according to the role of patch. For example,
the patches related to the 'watermark' could be sequentially
listed. But, it is not forced opinion. If just possible.

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Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics