Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:25:03 +0100 | From | Quentin Perret <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v3 10/10] arch_topology: Start Energy Aware Scheduling |
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On Tuesday 19 Jun 2018 at 12:19:01 (+0200), Juri Lelli wrote: > On 19/06/18 11:02, Quentin Perret wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 Jun 2018 at 11:47:14 (+0200), Juri Lelli wrote: > > > On 19/06/18 10:40, Quentin Perret wrote: > > > > Hi Pavan, > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 19 Jun 2018 at 14:48:41 (+0530), Pavan Kondeti wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > There seems to be a sysfs interface exposed by this driver to change cpu_scale. > > > > > Should we worry about it? I don't know what is the usecase for changing the > > > > > cpu_scale from user space. > > > > > > > > This is something I've been wondering as well. TBH, I'm not sure what to > > > > do in this case. And I'm not sure to know what is the use-case either. > > > > Debugging purpose I assume ? > > > > > > > > Juri, did you have a specific use-case for this feature when the > > > > arch_topology driver was first introduced ? Or was it just to align > > > > with the existing arm/arm64 code ? > > > > > > It was requested (IIRC) because DT might have bogus values and not be > > > easily modifiable. So, this is another way to get things right for your > > > platform at runtime. > > > > Right, but that also allows you to set different capacities to CPUs > > inside the same freq domain, which isn't supported by the EM framework, > > at least for now. So I would prefer to assume that your values in DT must > > to be correct to use EAS, and leave the code as-is for now. > > It's actually built on the (current) assumption that siblings share > capacity [1], so it seems to align with what EM requires. > > [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/base/arch_topology.c#L71
But there is not hard guarantee that the core_sibling mask and the frequency domains are aligned :-(
Hikey 620 is an example where they might be misaligned (I think)
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