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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] PM / arch: x86: MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS sysfs interface
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:00 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:20:17PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > + ret = rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, &epb);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + ret = wrmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS,
> > + (epb & ~EPB_MASK) | val);
>
> That's two back-to-back IPIs and a giant waste.

Giant with respect to what?

I know that the read can be avoidable if more MSR bits are stored in
memory, but I don't expect this i/f to be used very often (once per
boot maybe or on AC<->DC changes at most), so I didn't think that this
would be a good tradeoff.

> If you'd use a proper msr shadow variable, you'd not have to do the
> rdmsr_on_cpu :-)

Not really.

The MSR can be updated from elsewhere which is not controlled by this code.

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