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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] pseries: Track and expose idle PURR and SPURR ticks
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"Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> On PSeries LPARs, the data centers planners desire a more accurate
> view of system utilization per resource such as CPU to plan the system
> capacity requirements better. Such accuracy can be obtained by reading
> PURR/SPURR registers for CPU resource utilization.
>
> Tools such as lparstat which are used to compute the utilization need
> to know [S]PURR ticks when the cpu was busy or idle. The [S]PURR
> counters are already exposed through sysfs. We already account for
> PURR ticks when we go to idle so that we can update the VPA area. This
> patchset extends support to account for SPURR ticks when idle, and
> expose both via per-cpu sysfs files.

Does anything really want to use PURR instead of SPURR? Seems like we
should expose only SPURR idle values if possible.

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