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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v3 0/5] Introduce Cpufreq Active Stats
On 06-04-22, 23:08, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the 3rd version of patch set which tries to address issues which are
> due to missing proper information about CPU performance in time.
>
> The issue description:
> 1. "Cpufreq statistics cover the time when CPUs are in idle states, so they
> are not suitable for certain purposes, like thermal control." Rafael [2]
> 2. Thermal governor Intelligent Power Allocation (IPA) has to estimate power,
> for the last period, e.g. 100ms, for each CPU in the Cluster, to grant new
> power and set max possible frequency. Currently in some cases it gets big
> error, when the frequency of CPU changed in the middle. It is due to the
> fact that IPA reads the current frequency for the CPU, not aware of all
> other frequencies which were actively (not in idle) used in the last 100ms.
>
> This code focuses on tracking the events of idle entry/exit for each CPU
> and combine them with the frequency tracked statistics inside internal
> statistics arrays (per-CPU). In the old cpufreq stats we have one shared
> statistics array for the policy (all CPUs) and not take into account
> periods when each CPU was in idle.
>
> Sometimes the IPA error between old estimation signal and reality is quite
> big (>50%).

It would have been useful to show how the stats hierarchy looks in userspace
now.

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viresh

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