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SubjectRe: cpufreq: intel_pstate: map utilization into the pstate range


On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Francisco Jerez wrote:

> Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr> writes:
>
> >> As you can see in intel_pstate.c, min_pstate is initialized on core
> >> platforms from MSR_PLATFORM_INFO[47:40], which is "Maximum Efficiency
> >> Ratio (R/O)". However that seems to deviate massively from the most
> >> efficient ratio on your system, which may indicate a firmware bug, some
> >> sort of clock gating problem, or an issue with the way that
> >> intel_pstate.c processes this information.
> >
> > I'm not sure to understand the bug part. min_pstate gives the frequency
> > that I find as the minimum frequency when I look for the specifications of
> > the CPU. Should one expect that it should be something different?
> >
>
> I'd expect the minimum frequency on your processor specification to
> roughly match the "Maximum Efficiency Ratio (R/O)" value from that MSR,
> since there's little reason to claim your processor can be clocked down
> to a frequency which is inherently inefficient /and/ slower than the
> maximum efficiency ratio -- In fact they both seem to match in your
> system, they're just nowhere close to the frequency which is actually
> most efficient, which smells like a bug, like your processor
> misreporting what the most efficient frequency is, or it deviating from
> the expected one due to your CPU static power consumption being greater
> than it would be expected to be under ideal conditions -- E.g. due to
> some sort of clock gating issue, possibly due to a software bug, or due
> to our scheduling of such workloads with a large amount of lightly
> loaded threads being unnecessarily inefficient which could also be
> preventing most of your CPU cores from ever being clock-gated even
> though your processor may be sitting idle for a large fraction of their
> runtime.

The original mail has results from two different machines: Intel 6130
(skylake) and Intel 5218 (cascade lake). I have access to another cluster
of 6130s and 5218s. I can try them.

I tried 5.9 in which I just commented out the schedutil code to make
frequency requests. I only tested avrora (tiny pauses) and h2 (longer
pauses) and in both case the execution is almost entirely in the turbo
frequencies.

I'm not sure to understand the term "clock-gated". What C state does that
correspond to? The turbostat output for one run of avrora is below.

julia

78.062895 sec
Package Core CPU Avg_MHz Busy% Bzy_MHz TSC_MHz IRQ SMI POLL C1 C1E C6 POLL% C1% C1E% C6% CPU%c1 CPU%c6 CoreTmp PkgTmp Pkg%pc2 Pkg%pc6 Pkg_J RAM_J PKG_% RAM_%
- - - 31 2.95 1065 2096 156134 0 1971 155458 2956270 657130 0.00 0.20 4.78 92.26 14.75 82.31 40 41 45.14 0.04 4747.52 2509.05 0.00 0.00
0 0 0 13 1.15 1132 2095 11360 0 0 2 39 19209 0.00 0.00 0.01 99.01 8.02 90.83 39 41 90.24 0.04 2266.04 1346.09 0.00 0.00
0 0 32 1 0.09 1001 2095 37 0 0 0 0 42 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 9.08
0 1 4 0 0.04 1000 2095 57 0 0 0 1 133 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.96 0.08 99.88 38
0 1 36 0 0.00 1000 2095 35 0 0 0 0 40 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.12
0 2 8 0 0.03 1000 2095 64 0 0 0 1 124 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.97 0.08 99.89 38
0 2 40 0 0.00 1000 2095 36 0 0 0 0 40 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.10
0 3 12 0 0.00 1000 2095 42 0 0 0 0 71 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.14 99.86 38
0 3 44 1 0.09 1000 2095 63 0 0 0 0 65 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.91 0.05
0 4 14 0 0.00 1010 2095 38 0 0 0 1 41 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.04 99.96 39
0 4 46 0 0.00 1011 2095 36 0 0 0 1 41 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.04
0 5 10 0 0.01 1084 2095 39 0 0 0 0 58 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.99 0.04 99.95 38
0 5 42 0 0.00 1114 2095 35 0 0 0 0 39 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.05
0 6 6 0 0.03 1005 2095 89 0 0 0 1 116 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.97 0.07 99.90 39
0 6 38 0 0.00 1000 2095 38 0 0 0 0 41 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.10
0 7 2 0 0.05 1001 2095 59 0 0 0 1 133 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.95 0.09 99.86 40
0 7 34 0 0.00 1000 2095 39 0 0 0 0 65 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.13
0 8 16 0 0.00 1000 2095 43 0 0 0 0 47 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.04 99.96 38
0 8 48 0 0.00 1000 2095 37 0 0 0 0 41 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.04
0 9 20 0 0.00 1000 2095 33 0 0 0 0 37 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03 99.97 38
0 9 52 0 0.00 1000 2095 33 0 0 0 0 36 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03
0 10 24 0 0.00 1000 2095 36 0 0 0 1 40 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03 99.96 39
0 10 56 0 0.00 1000 2095 37 0 0 0 1 38 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03
0 11 28 0 0.00 1002 2095 35 0 0 0 1 37 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03 99.97 38
0 11 60 0 0.00 1004 2095 34 0 0 0 0 36 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03
0 12 30 0 0.00 1001 2095 35 0 0 0 0 40 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.11 99.88 38
0 12 62 0 0.01 1000 2095 197 0 0 0 0 197 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.99 0.10
0 13 26 0 0.00 1000 2095 37 0 0 0 0 41 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03 99.97 39
0 13 58 0 0.00 1000 2095 38 0 0 0 0 40 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03
0 14 22 0 0.01 1000 2095 149 0 1 2 0 142 0.00 0.01 0.00 99.99 0.07 99.92 39
0 14 54 0 0.00 1000 2095 35 0 0 0 0 38 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.07
0 15 18 0 0.00 1000 2095 33 0 0 0 0 36 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03 99.97 39
0 15 50 0 0.00 1000 2095 34 0 0 0 0 38 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.03
1 0 1 32 3.23 1008 2095 2385 0 31 3190 45025 10144 0.00 0.28 4.68 91.99 11.21 85.56 32 35 0.04 0.04 2481.49 1162.96 0.00 0.00
1 0 33 9 0.63 1404 2095 12206 0 5 162 2480 10283 0.00 0.04 0.75 98.64 13.81
1 1 5 1 0.07 1384 2095 236 0 0 38 24 314 0.00 0.09 0.06 99.77 4.66 95.27 33
1 1 37 81 3.93 2060 2095 1254 0 5 40 59 683 0.00 0.01 0.02 96.05 0.80
1 2 9 37 3.46 1067 2095 2396 0 29 2256 55406 11731 0.00 0.17 6.02 90.54 54.10 42.44 31
1 2 41 151 14.51 1042 2095 10447 0 135 10494 248077 42327 0.01 0.87 26.57 58.84 43.05
1 3 13 110 10.47 1053 2095 7120 0 120 9218 168938 33884 0.01 0.77 16.63 72.68 42.58 46.95 32
1 3 45 69 6.76 1021 2095 4730 0 66 5598 115410 23447 0.00 0.44 12.06 81.12 46.29
1 4 15 112 10.64 1056 2095 7204 0 116 8831 171423 37754 0.01 0.70 17.56 71.67 28.01 61.35 33
1 4 47 18 1.80 1006 2095 1771 0 13 915 29315 6564 0.00 0.07 3.20 95.03 36.85
1 5 11 63 5.96 1065 2095 4090 0 58 6449 99015 18955 0.00 0.45 10.27 83.64 31.24 62.80 31
1 5 43 72 7.11 1016 2095 4794 0 73 6203 115361 26494 0.00 0.48 11.79 81.02 30.09
1 6 7 35 3.39 1022 2095 2328 0 45 3377 52721 13759 0.00 0.27 5.10 91.43 25.84 70.77 32
1 6 39 67 6.09 1096 2095 4483 0 52 3696 94964 19366 0.00 0.30 10.32 83.61 23.14
1 7 3 1 0.06 1395 2095 91 0 0 0 1 167 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.95 25.36 74.58 35
1 7 35 83 8.16 1024 2095 5785 0 100 7398 134640 27428 0.00 0.56 13.39 78.34 17.26
1 8 17 46 4.49 1016 2095 3229 0 52 3048 74914 16010 0.00 0.27 8.29 87.19 29.71 65.80 33
1 8 49 64 6.12 1052 2095 4210 0 89 5782 100570 21463 0.00 0.42 10.63 83.17 28.08
1 9 21 73 7.02 1036 2095 4917 0 64 5786 109887 21939 0.00 0.55 11.61 81.18 22.10 70.88 33
1 9 53 64 6.33 1012 2095 4074 0 69 5957 97596 20580 0.00 0.51 9.78 83.74 22.79
1 10 25 26 2.58 1013 2095 1825 0 22 2124 42630 8627 0.00 0.17 4.17 93.24 53.91 43.52 33
1 10 57 159 15.59 1022 2095 10951 0 175 14237 256828 56810 0.01 1.10 26.00 58.16 40.89
1 11 29 112 10.54 1065 2095 7462 0 126 9548 179206 39821 0.01 0.85 18.49 70.71 29.46 60.00 31
1 11 61 29 2.89 1011 2095 2002 0 24 2468 45558 10288 0.00 0.20 4.71 92.36 37.11
1 12 31 37 3.66 1011 2095 2596 0 79 3161 61027 13292 0.00 0.24 6.48 89.79 23.75 72.59 32
1 12 63 56 5.08 1107 2095 3789 0 62 4777 79133 17089 0.00 0.41 7.91 86.86 22.31
1 13 27 12 1.14 1045 2095 1477 0 16 888 18744 3250 0.00 0.06 2.18 96.70 21.23 77.64 32
1 13 59 60 5.81 1038 2095 5230 0 60 4936 87225 21402 0.00 0.41 8.95 85.14 16.55
1 14 23 28 2.75 1024 2095 2008 0 20 1839 47417 9177 0.00 0.13 5.08 92.21 34.18 63.07 32
1 14 55 106 9.58 1105 2095 6292 0 89 7182 141379 31354 0.00 0.63 14.45 75.81 27.36
1 15 19 118 11.65 1012 2095 7872 0 121 10014 193186 40448 0.01 0.80 19.53 68.68 37.53 50.82 32
1 15 51 59 5.58 1059 2095 3967 0 54 5842 88063 21138 0.00 0.39 9.12 85.23 43.60

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