linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: use cpufreq_quick_get() for /proc/cpuinfo "cpu MHz" again

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Message-ID: <20171115074358.4jf4sjpq4ffmhmpi@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:43:58 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        WANG Chao <chao.wang@...oud.cn>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use cpufreq_quick_get() for /proc/cpuinfo "cpu MHz"
 again


* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:06:12 AM CET Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > >> Current head + Raphaels patch:
> > >>
> > >> real    0m0.029s
> > >> user    0m0.000s
> > >> sys     0m0.010s
> > >>
> > >> So that patch is actually slower.
> > >
> > > Oh it definitely is expected to be slower, because it does the IPI to
> > > all the cores and actually gets their frequency right.
> > >
> > > It was the old one that we had to revert (because it did so
> > > sequentially) that was really bad, and took something like 2+ seconds
> > > on Ingo's 160-core thing, iirc.
> > 
> > Looked it up. Ingo's machine "only" had 120 cores, and he said
> > 
> >     fomalhaut:~> time cat /proc/cpuinfo  >/dev/null
> >     real    0m2.689s
> > 
> > for the bad serial case, so yeah, it looks "a bit" better than it was ;)
> 
> OK, so may I queue it up?
> 
> I don't think I can get that to work substantially faster anyway ...

The new version is OK I suppose:

  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

I also think that /proc/cpuinfo is a pretty bad interface for many uses - I 
personally only very rarely need the cpuinfo of _all_ CPUs.

We we should eventually have /proc/cpu/N/info or so, so that 99% of the times 
cpuinfo is needed to report bugs we can do:

	cat /proc/cpu/0/info

With maybe also the following variants:

	/proc/cpu/first/
	/proc/cpu/last/
	/proc/cpu/current/

... to the first/last/current CPUs.

Thanks,

	Ingo