linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: cpuacct: Track cpuusage for CPU frequencies

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Date:	Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:47:32 +0200
From:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To:	Mike Chan <mike@...roid.com>, menage@...gle.com
Cc:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dwalker@...o99.com,
	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: cpuacct: Track cpuusage for CPU frequencies

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 03:21:59 Mike Chan wrote:
> New file: cpuacct.cpufreq when CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STATS is enabled.
> 
> cpuacct.cpufreq reports the CPU time (nanoseconds) spent at each CPU frequency
> 
> Maximum number of frequencies supported is 32. As future architectures are
> added that support more than 32 frequency levels, CPUFREQ_TABLE_MAX in sched.c
> needs to be updated.
Why is accounting of each frequency needed?
pcc-cpufreq driver can do every frequency in a range and supports hundreds of
different frequencies, thus it does not depend on CPU_FREQ_TABLE.
Would the average frequency be enough to track/account?
This would avoid the static interface of listing each available freq.
It would also count "boosted" frequency case which is avail on most recent
X86 cpus.

> Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@...roid.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt |    3 +
>  kernel/sched.c                    |  112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
... 
>  static int cpuacct_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
> @@ -9031,6 +9132,17 @@ static void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime)
>  
>  	for (; ca; ca = ca->parent) {
>  		u64 *cpuusage = per_cpu_ptr(ca->cpuusage, cpu);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT
> +		struct cpufreq_table *cpufreq_table =
> +			per_cpu_ptr(ca->cpufreq_table, cpu);
> +
> +		if (cpufreq_index > CPUFREQ_TABLE_MAX)
> +			printk_once(KERN_WARNING "cpuacct_charge: "
> +					"cpufreq_index: %d exceeds max table "
> +					"size\n", cpufreq_index);
> +		else
> +			cpufreq_table->freq[cpufreq_index] += cputime;
> +#endif
Can the frequency change somewhere in the middle between cpuacct_charge is
called?
What guarantees that the task run at cpufreq_table->freq[cpufreq_index]
all the time?

     Thomas

>  		*cpuusage += cputime;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
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