The PID assumes that samples are of equal time, which for a deferable
timers this is not true when the system goes idle. This causes the
PID to take a long time to converge to the min P state and depending
on the pattern of the idle load can make the P state appear stuck.
The hold-off value of three sample times before using the scaling is
to give a grace period for applications that have high performance
requirements and spend a lot of time idle, The poster child for this
behavior is the ffmpeg benchmark in the Phoronix test suite.
Cc: 3.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Changing to fixed point math throughout the busy calculation in
commit e66c1768 (Change busy calculation to use fixed point
math.) Introduced some inaccuracies by rounding the busy value at two
points in the calculation. This change removes roundings and moves
the rounding to the output of the PID where the calculations are
complete and the value returned as an integer.
Fixes: e66c176837 (intel_pstate: Change busy calculation to use fixed point math.)
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Cc: 3.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Setting the P state of the core to max at init time is a hold over
from early implementation of intel_pstate where intel_pstate disabled
cpufreq and loaded VERY early in the boot sequence. This was to
ensure that intel_pstate did not affect boot time. This in not needed
now that intel_pstate is a cpufreq driver.
Removing this covers the case where a CPU has gone through a manual
CPU offline/online cycle and the P state is set to MAX on init and the
CPU immediately goes idle. Due to HW coordination the P state request
on the idle CPU will drag all cores to MAX P state until the load is
reevaluated when to core goes non-idle.
Reported-by: Patrick Marlier <patrick.marlier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Cc: 3.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
A documentation update exposed that there is a separate set of VID
values that must be used in the turbo/boost P state range. Add
enumerating and setting the correct VID for P states in the turbo
range.
Cc: v3.13+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Since commit d37e2b7644 ("intel_pstate: remove unneeded sample buffers")
we use only one sample. So, there is no need to pass the sample
pointer to intel_pstate_calc_busy. Instead, get the pointer from
cpudata. Also, remove the unused SAMPLE_COUNT macro.
While at it, reformat the first line in this function.
Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Change to use the new ->stop_cpu() callback to do clean up during CPU
hotplug. The requested P state for an offline core will be used by the
hardware coordination function to select the package P state. If the
core is under load when it is offlined it will fix the package P state
floor to the requested P state of offline core.
Reported-by: Patrick Marlier <patrick.marlier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
commit d253d2a526 (Improve accuracy by not truncating until final
result), changed internal variables of the PID to be fixed point
numbers. Update the pid_reset() to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Remove unneeded sample buffers, intel_pstate operates on the most
recent sample only. This save some memory and make the code more
readable.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Commit fcb6a15c2e (intel_pstate: Take core C0 time into account for
core busy calculation) introduced a regression on some processor SKUs
supported by intel_pstate. This was due to the truncation caused by
using integer math to calculate core busy and C0 percentages.
On a i7-4770K processor operating at 800Mhz going to 100% utilization
the percent busy of the CPU using integer math is 22%, but it actually
is 22.85%. This value scaled to the current frequency returned 97
which the PID interpreted as no error and did not adjust the P state.
Tested on i7-4770K, i7-2600, i5-3230M.
Fixes: fcb6a15c2e (intel_pstate: Take core C0 time into account for core busy calculation)
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/19/626
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70941
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
LFM (max efficiency ratio) is the max frequency at minimum voltage
supported by the processor. Using LFM as the minimum P state
increases performmance without affecting power. By not using P states
below LFM we avoid using P states that are less power efficient.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Cc: 3.13+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Remove the reporting of energy since it does not provide any useful
information about the state of the driver and will be a maintainance
headache going forward since the RAPL energy units register is not
architectural and subject to change between micro-architectures
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69831
Fixes: b69880f9cc (intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.)
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add perf trace event "power:pstate_sample" to report driver state to
aid in diagnosing issues reported against intel_pstate.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Stratos Karafotis
Rafael J. Wysocki
Doug Smythies
Dirk Brandewie