The problem is in the ondemand governor, there is a periodic measurement
of the CPU usage. This CPU usage is updated by the scheduler after every
tick (basically, by adding 1 either to "idle" or to "user" or to
"system"). So if the frequency of the governor is too high, the stat
will be meaningless (as mostly no number have changed).
So this patch checks that the measurements are separated by at least 10
ticks. It means that by default, stats will have about 5% error (20
ticks). Of course those numbers can be argued but, IMHO, they look sane.
The patch also includes a small clean-up to check more explictly the
result of the conversion from ns to µs being null.
Let's note that (on x86) this has never been really needed before 2.6.13
because HZ was always 1000. Now that HZ can be 100, some CPU might be
affected by this problem. For instance when HZ=100, the centrino ,which
has a 10µs transition latency, would lead to the governor allowing to
read stats every tick (10ms)!
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
A minor fix for cpufreq_add_dev() error path. We need to call driver->exit()
if driver_init() call has succeeded.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* ret has no need to be unsigned in cpufreq_driver_target()
* ret has no need to be initialized in __cpufreq_governor()
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Fix u32 vs pm_message_t confusion in cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Blackham <bernard@blackham.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sysfs: fix the rest of the kernel so if an attribute doesn't
implement show or store method read/write will return
-EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL or -EPERM.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Changes to the cpufreq stats driver:
* Changes the way P-state transition table looks in /sysfs providing more
clear output
* Changes the time unit in the output from HZ to clock_t
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[PATCH] [5/5] ondemand governor default sampling downfactor as 1
Make default sampling downfactor 1.
This works better with earlier auto downscaling change in ondemand governor.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[PATCH] [4/5] ondemand governor automatic downscaling
Here is a change of policy for the ondemand governor. The modification
concerns the frequency downscaling. Instead of decreasing to a lower
frequency when the CPU usage is under 20%, this new policy automatically
scales to the optimal frequency. The optimal frequency being the lowest
frequency which provides enough power to not trigger the upscaling policy.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[PATCH] [3/5] ondemand,conservative governor idle_tick clean-up
Ondemand and conservative governor clean-up, it factorises the idle ticks
measurement.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[PATCH] [2/5] ondemand,conservative governor store the idle ticks for all cpus
Ondemand, conservative governor did not store prev_cpu_idle_up into
prev_cpu_idle_down for other CPUs than the current CPU.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[PATCH] [1/5] ondemand,conservative minor bug-fix and cleanup
Attached patch fixes some minor issues with Alexander's patch and related
cleanup in both ondemand and conservative governor.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Adds support so that the cpufreq change stepping is no longer fixed at 5% and
can be changed dynamically by the user
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
A new cpufreq module, based on the ondemand one with my additional patches
just posted. This one is more suitable for battery environments where its
probably more appealing to have the cpu freq gracefully increase and decrease
rather than flip between the min and max freq's.
N.B. Bruno Ducrot pointed out that the amd64's "do have unacceptable latency
between min and max freq transition, due to the step-by-step requirements
(200MHz IIRC)"; so AMD64 users would probably benefit from this too.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This patch makes a needlessly global and EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed struct static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This comes up time and time again. Until its fixed, place this
comment in the Kconfig which should stem the flow of resubmissions.
Signed-off-by: Rob Weryk <rjweryk@uwo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Trivial ondemand governor clean-ups:
- change from sampling_rate_in_HZ() to the official function
usecs_to_jiffies().
- use for_each_online_cpu() to instead of using "if (cpu_online(i))"
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
cpufreq core is printing out messages at KERN_WARNING level that the core
recovers from without intervention, and that the system administrator can
do nothing about. Patch below reduces the severity of these messages to
debug.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The cpufreq core patch I sent earlier got only half-applied. I added a
flag to let the low level driver disable an annoying warning on
suspend/resume that is normal on ppc, but the "resume" part of it wasn't
applied.
This just adds back that missing bit. The original patch also reworked
the resume() function to avoid nesting too many if () statements along
the way I did the suspend() one, but I didn't include that in the patch
below.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In order to properly fix some issues with cpufreq vs. sleep on
PowerBooks, I had to add a suspend callback to the pmac_cpufreq driver.
I must force a switch to full speed before sleep and I switch back to
previous speed on resume.
I also added a driver flag to disable the warnings in suspend/resume
since it is expected in this case to have different speed (and I want it
to fixup the jiffies properly).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Dave Jones
Venkatesh Pallipadi
Bernard Blackham
Dmitry Torokhov
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Linus Torvalds