The venerable menu governor does some things that are quite
questionable in my view.
First, it includes timer wakeups in the pattern detection data and
mixes them up with wakeups from other sources which in some cases
causes it to expect what essentially would be a timer wakeup in a
time frame in which no timer wakeups are possible (because it knows
the time until the next timer event and that is later than the
expected wakeup time).
Second, it uses the extra exit latency limit based on the predicted
idle duration and depending on the number of tasks waiting on I/O,
even though those tasks may run on a different CPU when they are
woken up. Moreover, the time ranges used by it for the sleep length
correction factors depend on whether or not there are tasks waiting
on I/O, which again doesn't imply anything in particular, and they
are not correlated to the list of available idle states in any way
whatever.
Also, the pattern detection code in menu may end up considering
values that are too large to matter at all, in which cases running
it is a waste of time.
A major rework of the menu governor would be required to address
these issues and the performance of at least some workloads (tuned
specifically to the current behavior of the menu governor) is likely
to suffer from that. It is thus better to introduce an entirely new
governor without them and let everybody use the governor that works
better with their actual workloads.
The new governor introduced here, the timer events oriented (TEO)
governor, uses the same basic strategy as menu: it always tries to
find the deepest idle state that can be used in the given conditions.
However, it applies a different approach to that problem.
First, it doesn't use "correction factors" for the time till the
closest timer, but instead it tries to correlate the measured idle
duration values with the available idle states and use that
information to pick up the idle state that is most likely to "match"
the upcoming CPU idle interval.
Second, it doesn't take the number of "I/O waiters" into account at
all and the pattern detection code in it avoids taking timer wakeups
into account. It also only uses idle duration values less than the
current time till the closest timer (with the tick excluded) for that
purpose.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Add two new metrics for CPU idle states, "above" and "below", to count
the number of times the given state had been asked for (or entered
from the kernel's perspective), but the observed idle duration turned
out to be too short or too long for it (respectively).
These metrics help to estimate the quality of the CPU idle governor
in use.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add cpuidle.governor= command line parameter to allow the default
cpuidle governor to be replaced.
That is useful, for example, if someone running a tickful kernel
wants to use the menu governor on it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Important information is missing from user/admin cpuidle documentation
available today, so add a new user/admin document for cpuidle containing
current and comprehensive information to admin-guide and drop the old
.txt documents it is replacing.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Explain influence of per-core P-states and hyper threading on the
effective performance.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fix a typo in the admin-guide documentation for cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Wei Liew <zhaoweiliew@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Updated documentation to explain base_frequency attribute.
Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Document the recently introduced hwp_dynamic_boost sysfs knob
allowing user space to tell intel_pstate to use iowait boosting
in the active mode with HWP enabled (to improve performance).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Fix an incorrect sysfs path in the intel_pstate admin-guide
documentation.
Fixes: 33fc30b470 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interface)
Reported-by: Pawit Pornkitprasan <p.pawit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
P-state selection algorithm (powersave or performance) is selected by
echoing the desired choice to scaling_governor sysfs attribute and not
to scaling_cur_freq (as currently stated).
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fix a typo in admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* intel_pstate:
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Shorten a couple of long names
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_pstate_adjust_pstate()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Improve IO performance with per-core P-states
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Drop INTEL_PSTATE_HWP_SAMPLING_INTERVAL
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Drop ->update_util from pstate_funcs
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use PID-based P-state selection
* pm-cpufreq: (33 commits)
cpufreq: imx6q: Fix imx6sx low frequency support
cpufreq: speedstep-lib: make several arrays static, makes code smaller
cpufreq: ti: Fix 'of_node_put' being called twice in error handling path
cpufreq: dt-platdev: Drop few entries from whitelist
cpufreq: dt-platdev: Automatically create cpufreq device with OPP v2
ARM: ux500: don't select CPUFREQ_DT
cpufreq: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
cpufreq: Cap the default transition delay value to 10 ms
cpufreq: dbx500: Delete obsolete driver
mfd: db8500-prcmu: Get rid of cpufreq dependency
cpufreq: enable the DT cpufreq driver on the Ux500
cpufreq: Loongson2: constify platform_device_id
cpufreq: dt: Add r8a7796 support to to use generic cpufreq driver
cpufreq: remove setting of policy->cpu in policy->cpus during init
cpufreq: mediatek: add support of cpufreq to MT7622 SoC
cpufreq: mediatek: add cleanups with the more generic naming
cpufreq: rcar: Add support for R8A7795 SoC
cpufreq: dt: Add rk3328 compatible to use generic cpufreq driver
cpufreq: s5pv210: add missing of_node_put()
cpufreq: Allow dynamic switching with CPUFREQ_ETERNAL latency
...
Reorganize the power management part of admin-guide by adding a
description of major power management strategies supported by the
kernel (system-wide and working-state power management) to it and
dividing the rest of the material into the system-wide PM and
working-state PM chapters.
On top of that, add a description of system sleep states to the
system-wide PM chapter.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Add a description of the cpuinfo_cur_freq policy attribute in sysfs
to the cpufreq documentation under Documentation/admin-guide/pm/ as
it is missing after commit 2a0e492798 (cpufreq: User/admin
documentation update and consolidation) that overlooked it.
Fixes: 2a0e492798 (cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
All systems with a defined ACPI preferred profile that are not
"servers" have been using the load-based P-state selection algorithm
in intel_pstate since 4.12-rc1 (mobile systems and laptops have been
using it since 4.10-rc1) and no problems with it have been reported
to date. In particular, no regressions with respect to the PID-based
P-state selection have been reported. Also testing indicates that
the P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load is generally on par
with the PID-based algorithm performance-wise, and for some workloads
it turns out to be better than the other one, while being more
straightforward and easier to understand at the same time.
Moreover, the PID-based P-state selection algorithm in intel_pstate
is known to be unstable in some situation and generally problematic,
the issues with it are hard to address and it has become a
significant maintenance burden.
For these reasons, make intel_pstate use the "powersave" P-state
selection algorithm based on CPU load in the active mode on all
systems and drop the PID-based P-state selection code along with
all things related to it from the driver. Also update the
documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The cpufreq core and governors aren't supposed to set a limit on how
fast we want to try changing the frequency. This is currently done for
the legacy governors with help of min_sampling_rate.
At worst, we may end up setting the sampling rate to a value lower than
the rate at which frequency can be changed and then one of the CPUs in
the policy will be only changing frequency for ever.
But that is something for the user to decide and there is no need to
have special handling for such cases in the core. Leave it for the user
to figure out.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Commit f8475cef90 "x86: use common aperfmperf_khz_on_cpu() to
calculate KHz using APERF/MPERF" modified the way the scaling_cur_freq
cpufreq policy attribute in sysfs is handled on contemporary
Intel-based x86 systems, so update the documentation to reflect
that change.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
After commit 82b4e03e01 (intel_pstate: skip scheduler hook when in
"performance" mode) get_target_pstate_use_performance() and
get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load() are never called if scaling_governor
is "performance", so drop the CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE checks from
them as they will never trigger anyway.
Moreover, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the change
made by the above commit, so do that too.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Add a document describing the current behavior and user space
interface of the intel_pstate driver in the RST format and
drop the existing outdated intel_pstate.txt document.
Also update admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst with proper RST references
to the new intel_pstate.rst document.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The user/admin documentation of cpufreq is badly outdated. It
conains stale and/or inaccurate information along with things
that are not particularly useful. Also, some of the important
pieces are missing from it.
For this reason, add a new user/admin document for cpufreq
containing current information to admin-guide and drop the old
outdated .txt documents it is replacing.
Since there will be more PM documents in admin-guide going forward,
create a separate directory for them and put the cpufreq document
in there right away.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Rafael J. Wysocki