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Message-ID: <4dd3798936a2488283e5520dc687aedd@viasat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 20:52:59 +0000
From: "Jones, Morgan" <Morgan.Jones@...sat.com>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
Dhananjay Ugwekar
<Dhananjay.Ugwekar@....com>,
"rafael@...nel.org" <rafael@...nel.org>,
"viresh.kumar@...aro.org" <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
"gautham.shenoy@....com"
<gautham.shenoy@....com>,
"perry.yuan@....com" <perry.yuan@....com>,
"skhan@...uxfoundation.org" <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
"li.meng@....com"
<li.meng@....com>,
"ray.huang@....com" <ray.huang@....com>
CC: "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
David Arcari
<darcari@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix the
scaling_max_freq setting on shared memory CPPC systems
On it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 1:52 PM
To: Jones, Morgan <Morgan.Jones@...sat.com>; Dhananjay Ugwekar <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@....com>; rafael@...nel.org; viresh.kumar@...aro.org; gautham.shenoy@....com; perry.yuan@....com; skhan@...uxfoundation.org; li.meng@....com; ray.huang@....com
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix the scaling_max_freq setting on shared memory CPPC systems
Morgan,
This does remind me of a clamping issue that touches some of the same variables. Can you please see if backporting
commit 8164f7433264 ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: adjust min/max limit perf")
to 6.6.y helps for you?
Thanks,
On 9/3/2024 15:09, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Morgan,
>
> OK that's great news that it's just a backport effort. That same
> commit also backported to 6.10.3. Can you see if 6.10.y is affected?
>
> Ugwekar,
>
> Any thoughts on what else needs to come back to 6.6.y off hand?
>
> Thanks,
>
> On 9/3/2024 15:07, Jones, Morgan wrote:
>> Hey Mario,
>>
>> Smoking gun here, the max frequency is incorrect on 6.6.44+ but is
>> correct on 6.11.0-rc6.
>>
>> Linux redact 6.11.0-rc6 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Jan 1
>> 00:00:00 UTC 1980 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> analyzing CPU 12:
>> driver: amd-pstate-epp
>> CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 12
>> CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software:
>> 12
>> maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported.
>> hardware limits: 400 MHz - 3.35 GHz
>> available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
>> current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 3.35 GHz.
>> The governor "performance" may decide which speed
>> to use
>> within this range.
>> current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
>> current CPU frequency: 3.34 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
>> boost state support:
>> Supported: yes
>> Active: yes
>> AMD PSTATE Highest Performance: 255. Maximum Frequency: 3.35 GHz.
>> AMD PSTATE Nominal Performance: 152. Nominal Frequency: 2.00 GHz.
>> AMD PSTATE Lowest Non-linear Performance: 115. Lowest Non-linear
>> Frequency: 1.51 GHz.
>> AMD PSTATE Lowest Performance: 31. Lowest Frequency: 400 MHz.
>>
>> We're running amd_pstate=active and amd_pstate.shared_mem=1, and our
>> workloads are back to normal performance on 6.11.0-rc6.
>>
>> Morgan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 10:55 AM
>> To: Jones, Morgan <Morgan.Jones@...sat.com>; Dhananjay Ugwekar
>> <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@....com>; rafael@...nel.org;
>> viresh.kumar@...aro.org; gautham.shenoy@....com; perry.yuan@....com;
>> skhan@...uxfoundation.org; li.meng@....com; ray.huang@....com
>> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; David
>> Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix the
>> scaling_max_freq setting on shared memory CPPC systems
>>
>> Hi Morgan,
>>
>> Can you please cross reference 6.11-rc6 to see if you're still having
>> a problem? I would like to understand if we're missing a backport to
>> stable or this is still an upstream problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On 9/3/2024 12:51, Jones, Morgan wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> We are experiencing a ~35% performance regression on an AMD EPYC
>>> 7702
>>> 64 core machine after applying this patch. We observed Linux 6.6.44
>>> starting to cause the issue, and performed a bisect involving
>>> rebooting the machine over 15 times. (Note that kexec didn't
>>> successfully identify the problem, since the PM memory mailbox is
>>> never reset).
>>>
>>> It appears that we are getting a max of 2.18 GHz when this CPU can
>>> boost to 3.35 GHz, explaining the slowdown. Blacklisting amd-pstate
>>> solves the issue at the expense of the performance increase we used
>>> to get by using it.
>>>
>>> Is it possible that the upper limits were implicitly at the max CPU
>>> power before, and setting the upper limit to something other than
>>> the boost frequency can reduce performance now?
>>>
>>> # bad: [7213910600667c51c978e577bf5454d3f7b313b7] Linux 6.6.44 # good:
>>> [58b0425ff5df680d0b67f64ae1f3f1ebdf1c4de9] Linux 6.6.43 git bisect
>>> start '7213910600667c51c978e577bf5454d3f7b313b7'
>>> '58b0425ff5df680d0b67f64ae1f3f1ebdf1c4de9'
>>> # good: [72ff9d26964a3a80f7650df719df139f5c1f965d] arm64: dts: qcom:
>>> sm6350: Add missing qcom,non-secure-domain property git bisect good
>>> 72ff9d26964a3a80f7650df719df139f5c1f965d
>>> # good: [0fffc2e1bf40a2220ef5a38f834ea063dba832d3] ARM: dts: sunxi:
>>> remove duplicated entries in makefile git bisect good
>>> 0fffc2e1bf40a2220ef5a38f834ea063dba832d3
>>> # bad: [8cdbe6ebfd1763a5c41a2a3058497c0a9163311c] pinctrl: renesas:
>>> r8a779g0: Fix CANFD5 suffix git bisect bad
>>> 8cdbe6ebfd1763a5c41a2a3058497c0a9163311c
>>> # bad: [5dbb98e7fa42bebc1325899193d8f13f0705a148] drm/mediatek: Turn
>>> off the layers with zero width or height git bisect bad
>>> 5dbb98e7fa42bebc1325899193d8f13f0705a148
>>> # bad: [691ec7043122c9c8c46d84f6e6cd85d13d50cd93] selftests/bpf:
>>> Null checks for links in bpf_tcp_ca git bisect bad
>>> 691ec7043122c9c8c46d84f6e6cd85d13d50cd93
>>> # bad: [a1359e085d75d7393a250054e66c0a7bc6c3dbfa] perf/x86:
>>> Serialize
>>> set_attr_rdpmc() git bisect bad
>>> a1359e085d75d7393a250054e66c0a7bc6c3dbfa
>>> # bad: [e99d9b16ff153de9540073239d24adc3b0a3a997] wifi: ath12k:
>>> change DMA direction while mapping reinjected packets git bisect bad
>>> e99d9b16ff153de9540073239d24adc3b0a3a997
>>> # bad: [d027ac4a08541beb2a89563d3e034da7085050ba] firmware:
>>> turris-mox-rwtm: Initialize completion before mailbox git bisect bad
>>> d027ac4a08541beb2a89563d3e034da7085050ba
>>> # bad: [e6c9eca327e6a41a81e7eba0d0ddc13da37f82a1] ARM: spitz: fix
>>> GPIO assignment for backlight git bisect bad
>>> e6c9eca327e6a41a81e7eba0d0ddc13da37f82a1
>>> # bad: [b8cdefdaa555bbfc269c2198803f8791a8923960] m68k: cmpxchg: Fix
>>> return value for default case in __arch_xchg() git bisect bad
>>> b8cdefdaa555bbfc269c2198803f8791a8923960
>>> # bad: [13a71384ae6a8779da809b00c6f378dcead10427] cpufreq/amd-pstate:
>>> Fix the scaling_max_freq setting on shared memory CPPC systems git
>>> bisect bad 13a71384ae6a8779da809b00c6f378dcead10427
>>> # first bad commit: [13a71384ae6a8779da809b00c6f378dcead10427]
>>> cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix the scaling_max_freq setting on shared
>>> memory CPPC systems
>>>
>>> cpupower output:
>>>
>>> analyzing CPU 47:
>>> driver: amd-pstate-epp
>>> CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 47
>>> CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software:
>>> 47
>>> maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported.
>>> hardware limits: 400 MHz - 2.18 GHz
>>> available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
>>> current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 2.18 GHz.
>>> The governor "performance" may decide which
>>> speed to use
>>> within this range.
>>> current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
>>> current CPU frequency: 2.17 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
>>> boost state support:
>>> Supported: yes
>>> Active: yes
>>> AMD PSTATE Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 2.18 GHz.
>>> AMD PSTATE Nominal Performance: 152. Nominal Frequency: 2.00 GHz.
>>> AMD PSTATE Lowest Non-linear Performance: 115. Lowest
>>> Non-linear Frequency: 1.51 GHz.
>>> AMD PSTATE Lowest Performance: 31. Lowest Frequency: 400 MHz.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Morgan
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 10:49 AM
>>> To: Dhananjay Ugwekar <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@....com>;
>>> rafael@...nel.org; viresh.kumar@...aro.org; gautham.shenoy@....com;
>>> perry.yuan@....com; skhan@...uxfoundation.org; li.meng@....com;
>>> ray.huang@....com
>>> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; David
>>> Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix the
>>> scaling_max_freq setting on shared memory CPPC systems
>>>
>>> On 7/2/2024 3:14, Dhananjay Ugwekar wrote:
>>>> On shared memory CPPC systems, with amd_pstate=active mode, the
>>>> change in scaling_max_freq doesn't get written to the shared memory
>>>> region.
>>>> Due to this, the writes to the scaling_max_freq sysfs file don't
>>>> take effect. Fix this by propagating the scaling_max_freq changes
>>>> to the shared memory region.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: ffa5096a7c33 ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: implement Pstate EPP
>>>> support for the AMD processors")
>>>> Reported-by: David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Ugwekar <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@....com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 43
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
>>>> b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c index 9ad62dbe8bfb..a092b13ffbc2
>>>> 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
>>>> @@ -247,6 +247,26 @@ static int
>>>> amd_pstate_get_energy_pref_index(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata)
>>>> return index;
>>>> }
>>>> +static void pstate_update_perf(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata, u32
>>>> min_perf,
>>>> + u32 des_perf, u32 max_perf, bool fast_switch) {
>>>> + if (fast_switch)
>>>> + wrmsrl(MSR_AMD_CPPC_REQ,
>>>> +READ_ONCE(cpudata->cppc_req_cached));
>>>> + else
>>>> + wrmsrl_on_cpu(cpudata->cpu, MSR_AMD_CPPC_REQ,
>>>> + READ_ONCE(cpudata->cppc_req_cached));
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(amd_pstate_update_perf, pstate_update_perf);
>>>> +
>>>> +static inline void amd_pstate_update_perf(struct amd_cpudata
>>>> +*cpudata,
>>>> + u32 min_perf, u32 des_perf,
>>>> + u32 max_perf, bool fast_switch) {
>>>> + static_call(amd_pstate_update_perf)(cpudata, min_perf,
>>>> +des_perf,
>>>> + max_perf, fast_switch); }
>>>> +
>>>> static int amd_pstate_set_epp(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata, u32
>>>> epp)
>>>> {
>>>> int ret;
>>>> @@ -263,6 +283,9 @@ static int amd_pstate_set_epp(struct
>>>> amd_cpudata *cpudata, u32 epp)
>>>> if (!ret)
>>>> cpudata->epp_cached = epp;
>>>> } else {
>>>> + amd_pstate_update_perf(cpudata, cpudata->min_limit_perf,
>>>> +0U,
>>>> + cpudata->max_limit_perf, false);
>>>> +
>>>> perf_ctrls.energy_perf = epp;
>>>> ret = cppc_set_epp_perf(cpudata->cpu, &perf_ctrls, 1);
>>>> if (ret) {
>>>> @@ -452,16 +475,6 @@ static inline int amd_pstate_init_perf(struct
>>>> amd_cpudata *cpudata)
>>>> return static_call(amd_pstate_init_perf)(cpudata);
>>>> }
>>>> -static void pstate_update_perf(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata, u32
>>>> min_perf,
>>>> - u32 des_perf, u32 max_perf, bool fast_switch)
>>>> -{
>>>> - if (fast_switch)
>>>> - wrmsrl(MSR_AMD_CPPC_REQ,
>>>> READ_ONCE(cpudata->cppc_req_cached));
>>>> - else
>>>> - wrmsrl_on_cpu(cpudata->cpu, MSR_AMD_CPPC_REQ,
>>>> - READ_ONCE(cpudata->cppc_req_cached));
>>>> -}
>>>> -
>>>> static void cppc_update_perf(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata,
>>>> u32 min_perf, u32 des_perf,
>>>> u32 max_perf, bool fast_switch) @@ -475,16
>>>> +488,6 @@
>>>> static void cppc_update_perf(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata,
>>>> cppc_set_perf(cpudata->cpu, &perf_ctrls);
>>>> }
>>>> -DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(amd_pstate_update_perf, pstate_update_perf);
>>>> -
>>>> -static inline void amd_pstate_update_perf(struct amd_cpudata
>>>> *cpudata,
>>>> - u32 min_perf, u32 des_perf,
>>>> - u32 max_perf, bool fast_switch) -{
>>>> - static_call(amd_pstate_update_perf)(cpudata, min_perf,
>>>> des_perf,
>>>> - max_perf, fast_switch); -}
>>>> -
>>>> static inline bool amd_pstate_sample(struct amd_cpudata
>>>> *cpudata)
>>>> {
>>>> u64 aperf, mperf, tsc;
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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