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    Subject[PATCH 3/3] PM: EM: Increase energy calculation precision
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    The Energy Model (EM) provides useful information about device power in
    each performance state to other subsystems like: Energy Aware Scheduler
    (EAS). The energy calculation in EAS does arithmetic operation based on
    the EM em_cpu_energy(). Current implementation of that function uses
    em_perf_state::cost as a pre-computed cost coefficient equal to:
    cost = power * max_frequency / frequency.
    The 'power' is expressed in milli-Watts (or in abstract scale).

    There are corner cases then the EAS energy calculation for two Performance
    Domains (PDs) return the same value, e.g. 10mW. The EAS compares these
    values to choose smaller one. It might happen that this values are equal
    due to rounding error. In such scenario, we need better precision, e.g.
    10000 times better. To provide this possibility increase the precision on
    the em_perf_state::cost.

    This patch allows to avoid the rounding to milli-Watt errors, which might
    occur in EAS energy estimation for each Performance Domains (PD). The
    rounding error is common for small tasks which have small utilization
    values.

    The rest of the EM code doesn't change, em_perf_state::power is still
    expressed in milli-Watts (or in abstract scale). Thus, all existing
    platforms don't have to change their reported power. The same applies to
    EM clients, like thermal or DTPM (they use em_perf_state::power).

    Reported-by: CCJ Yeh <CCj.Yeh@mediatek.com>
    Suggested-by: CCJ Yeh <CCj.Yeh@mediatek.com>
    Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
    ---
    include/linux/energy_model.h | 5 ++++-
    kernel/power/energy_model.c | 3 ++-
    2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/include/linux/energy_model.h b/include/linux/energy_model.h
    index 2016f5a706e0..91037dd57e61 100644
    --- a/include/linux/energy_model.h
    +++ b/include/linux/energy_model.h
    @@ -16,7 +16,10 @@
    * @power: The power consumed at this level (by 1 CPU or by a registered
    * device). It can be a total power: static and dynamic.
    * @cost: The cost coefficient associated with this level, used during
    - * energy calculation. Equal to: power * max_frequency / frequency
    + * energy calculation. Equal to:
    + power * 10000 * max_frequency / frequency
    + * To increase the energy estimation presision use different
    + * scale in this coefficient than in @power field.
    */
    struct em_perf_state {
    unsigned long frequency;
    diff --git a/kernel/power/energy_model.c b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
    index 0f4530b3a8cd..2724f0ac417d 100644
    --- a/kernel/power/energy_model.c
    +++ b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
    @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ static int em_create_perf_table(struct device *dev, struct em_perf_domain *pd,
    /* Compute the cost of each performance state. */
    fmax = (u64) table[nr_states - 1].frequency;
    for (i = 0; i < nr_states; i++) {
    - table[i].cost = div64_u64(fmax * table[i].power,
    + u64 power_res = (u64)table[i].power * 10000;
    + table[i].cost = div64_u64(fmax * power_res,
    table[i].frequency);
    }

    --
    2.17.1
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