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Message-ID: <20161005040118.GJ4664@vireshk-i7>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 09:31:18 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@...e.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@...aphore.gr>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] cpufreq/ondemand: Introduce op to customize
mapping of load to frequency
On 23-09-16, 19:02, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Introduce op for ondemand governor that is used to map load to
> frequency. It allows a cpufreq driver to provide a specific mapping
> function if the generic function is not optimal for the driver.
>
> Performance results (kernel compile with different number of jobs)
> based on 4.8.0-rc7 (with and w/o my patches on top) from
> an HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 system using pcc-cpufreq:
> - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-4890 v2 @ 2.80GHz
> - 60 CPUs, 128GB RAM
>
> vanilla generic_map_load_to_freq function
> # of jobs user sys elapsed % CPU user sys elapsed % CPU
> 2 445.44 110.51 272.99 203.00 445.56 111.22 273.35 203.00
> 4 444.41 126.20 142.81 399.00 445.61 126.10 143.12 399.00
> 8 483.04 150.58 82.19 770.40 483.51 150.84 82.17 771.40
> 16 626.81 185.01 55.00 1475.40 628.01 185.54 55.02 1477.80
> 32 816.72 204.39 37.26 2740.00 818.58 205.51 37.02 2765.40
> 64 406.59 51.12 14.04 3257.80 406.22 51.84 13.84 3308.80
> 120 413.00 48.39 14.36 3211.20 413.61 49.06 14.54 3181.00
>
> Similar tests on another system using acpi_cpufreq didn't show
> significant performance differences between these two kernel versions.
>
> Link: https://marc.info/?i=20160819121814.GA17296%40suselix.suse.de
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@...e.com>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h | 5 +++++
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
NAK.
If we are absolutely required to hack it in some way, then I would
prefer your first patchset as the noise was limited to only your
driver.
We aren't going to provide such operations from the governors, sorry.
--
viresh
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