linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/rapl: Do not load in a guest

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Message-ID: <20151204221446.GK17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:14:46 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Amy Wiles <amy.l.wiles@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/rapl: Do not load in a guest

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:51:02AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:22:56 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also, yuck @ powercap/intel_rapl.c for doing rdmsr_on_cpu() +
> > wrmsr_on_cpu() all over the place.
> Can you please be more specific? is the concern related to the
> overhead of IPI? I am doing these calls based on MSR CPU scope and
> consider the fact that access is less frequent.

Yeah, its just offensive to do an IPI to read a value, then twiddle a
few bits on the value and then IPI again to store the value.

I know its low freq, and that MSR access is slow, but *groan*.
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