linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/10] PM / EM: Expose the Energy Model in sysfs

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:06:20 +0100
From:   Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/10] PM / EM: Expose the Energy Model in sysfs

On Tuesday 19 Jun 2018 at 14:16:43 (+0200), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 03:24:59PM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > This exposes the Energy Model (read-only) of all frequency domains in
> > sysfs for convenience. To do so, a parent kobject is added to the CPU
> > subsystem under the umbrella of which a kobject for each frequency
> > domain is attached.
> > 
> > The resulting hierarchy is as follows for a platform with two frequency
> > domains for example:
> > 
> >    /sys/devices/system/cpu/energy_model
> >    ├── fd0
> >    │   ├── capacity
> >    │   ├── cpus
> >    │   ├── frequency
> >    │   └── power
> >    └── fd4
> >        ├── capacity
> >        ├── cpus
> >        ├── frequency
> >        └── power
> > 
> 
> Given that each FD can have multiple {freq,power} tuples and sysfs has a
> one value per file policy, how does this work?

This is meant to look a little bit like the sysfs entries of CPUFreq
policies, so you get something like this:

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/energy_model/fd0/capacity 
133 250 351 428 462 
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/energy_model/fd0/frequency 
533000 999000 1402000 1709000 1844000 
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/energy_model/fd0/power 
28 70 124 187 245 
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/energy_model/fd0/cpus
0-3


For example, CPUFreq exposes available governors and frequencies as:

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_governors 
conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_frequencies 
533000 999000 1402000 1709000 1844000