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* cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to driver frequencySteve Muckle2016-07-211-8/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The slow-path frequency transition path is relatively expensive as it requires waking up a thread to do work. Should support be added for remote CPU cpufreq updates that is also expensive since it requires an IPI. These activities should be avoided if they are not necessary. To that end, calculate the actual driver-supported frequency required by the new utilization value in schedutil by using the recently added cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq API. If it is the same as the previously requested driver frequency then there is no need to continue with the update assuming the cpu frequency limits have not changed. This will have additional benefits should the semantics of the rate limit be changed to apply solely to frequency transitions rather than to frequency calculations in schedutil. The last raw required frequency is cached. This allows the driver frequency lookup to be skipped in the event that the new raw required frequency matches the last one, assuming a frequency update has not been forced due to limits changing (indicated by a next_freq value of UINT_MAX, see sugov_should_update_freq). Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* cpufreq: governor: Create cpufreq_policy_apply_limits()Viresh Kumar2016-06-021-8/+1
| | | | | | | Create a new helper to avoid code duplication across governors. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* cpufreq: governor: Get rid of governor eventsRafael J. Wysocki2016-06-021-26/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The design of the cpufreq governor API is not very straightforward, as struct cpufreq_governor provides only one callback to be invoked from different code paths for different purposes. The purpose it is invoked for is determined by its second "event" argument, causing it to act as a "callback multiplexer" of sorts. Unfortunately, that leads to extra complexity in governors, some of which implement the ->governor() callback as a switch statement that simply checks the event argument and invokes a separate function to handle that specific event. That extra complexity can be eliminated by replacing the all-purpose ->governor() callback with a family of callbacks to carry out specific governor operations: initialization and exit, start and stop and policy limits updates. That also turns out to reduce the code size too, so do it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
* cpufreq: schedutil: Improve prints messages with pr_fmtViresh Kumar2016-05-191-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Prefix print messages with KBUILD_MODNAME, i.e 'cpufreq_schedutil: '. This helps to keep similar formatting for all the print messages particular to a file and identify those easily in kernel logs. Its already done this way for rest of the governors. Along with that, remove the (now) redundant bits from a print message. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* cpufreq: Call cpufreq_disable_fast_switch() in sugov_exit()Rafael J. Wysocki2016-04-081-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to differences in the cpufreq core's handling of runtime CPU offline and nonboot CPUs disabling during system suspend-to-RAM, fast frequency switching gets disabled after a suspend-to-RAM and resume cycle on all of the nonboot CPUs. To prevent that from happening, move the invocation of cpufreq_disable_fast_switch() from cpufreq_exit_governor() to sugov_exit(), as the schedutil governor is the only user of fast frequency switching today anyway. That simply prevents cpufreq_disable_fast_switch() from being called without invoking the ->governor callback for the CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT event (which happens during system suspend now). Fixes: b7898fda5bc7 (cpufreq: Support for fast frequency switching) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
* cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization dataRafael J. Wysocki2016-04-021-0/+528
Add a new cpufreq scaling governor, called "schedutil", that uses scheduler-provided CPU utilization information as input for making its decisions. Doing that is possible after commit 34e2c555f3e1 (cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering utilization update callbacks) that introduced cpufreq_update_util() called by the scheduler on utilization changes (from CFS) and RT/DL task status updates. In particular, CPU frequency scaling decisions may be based on the the utilization data passed to cpufreq_update_util() by CFS. The new governor is relatively simple. The frequency selection formula used by it depends on whether or not the utilization is frequency-invariant. In the frequency-invariant case the new CPU frequency is given by next_freq = 1.25 * max_freq * util / max where util and max are the last two arguments of cpufreq_update_util(). In turn, if util is not frequency-invariant, the maximum frequency in the above formula is replaced with the current frequency of the CPU: next_freq = 1.25 * curr_freq * util / max The coefficient 1.25 corresponds to the frequency tipping point at (util / max) = 0.8. All of the computations are carried out in the utilization update handlers provided by the new governor. One of those handlers is used for cpufreq policies shared between multiple CPUs and the other one is for policies with one CPU only (and therefore it doesn't need to use any extra synchronization means). The governor supports fast frequency switching if that is supported by the cpufreq driver in use and possible for the given policy. In the fast switching case, all operations of the governor take place in its utilization update handlers. If fast switching cannot be used, the frequency switch operations are carried out with the help of a work item which only calls __cpufreq_driver_target() (under a mutex) to trigger a frequency update (to a value already computed beforehand in one of the utilization update handlers). Currently, the governor treats all of the RT and DL tasks as "unknown utilization" and sets the frequency to the allowed maximum when updated from the RT or DL sched classes. That heavy-handed approach should be replaced with something more subtle and specifically targeted at RT and DL tasks. The governor shares some tunables management code with the "ondemand" and "conservative" governors and uses some common definitions from cpufreq_governor.h, but apart from that it is stand-alone. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>