Re: [RFC PATCH 06/16] arm: topology: Define TC2 sched energy and provide it to scheduler

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 07:16:33PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> +static struct capacity_state cap_states_cluster_a7[] = {
> +	/* Cluster only power */
> +	 { .cap =  358, .power = 2967, }, /*  350 MHz */
> +	 { .cap =  410, .power = 2792, }, /*  400 MHz */
> +	 { .cap =  512, .power = 2810, }, /*  500 MHz */
> +	 { .cap =  614, .power = 2815, }, /*  600 MHz */
> +	 { .cap =  717, .power = 2919, }, /*  700 MHz */
> +	 { .cap =  819, .power = 2847, }, /*  800 MHz */
> +	 { .cap =  922, .power = 3917, }, /*  900 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1024, .power = 4905, }, /* 1000 MHz */
> +	};
> +
> +static struct capacity_state cap_states_cluster_a15[] = {
> +	/* Cluster only power */
> +	 { .cap =  840, .power =  7920, }, /*  500 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1008, .power =  8165, }, /*  600 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1176, .power =  8172, }, /*  700 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1343, .power =  8195, }, /*  800 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1511, .power =  8265, }, /*  900 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1679, .power =  8446, }, /* 1000 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 1847, .power = 11426, }, /* 1100 MHz */
> +	 { .cap = 2015, .power = 15200, }, /* 1200 MHz */
> +	};


So how did you obtain these numbers? Did you use numbers provided by the
hardware people, or did you run a particular benchmark and record the
power usage?

Does that benchmark do some actual work (as opposed to a while(1) loop)
to keep more silicon lit up?

If you have a setup for measuring these, should we try and publish that
too so that people can run it on their platform and provide these
numbers?

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