Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix scaling max/min limits with Turbo 3.0

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jun 21 2018 - 09:23:09 EST


On Monday, June 18, 2018 9:47:45 PM CEST Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> When scaling max/min settings are changed, internally they are converted
> to a ratio using the max turbo 1 core turbo frequency. This works fine
> when 1 core max is same irrespective of the core. But under Turbo 3.0,
> this will not be the case. For example:
> Core 0: max turbo pstate: 43 (4.3GHz)
> Core 1: max turbo pstate: 45 (4.5GHz)
> In this case 1 core turbo ratio will be maximum of all, so it will be
> 45 (4.5GHz). Suppose scaling max is set to 4GHz (ratio 40) for all cores
> ,then on core one it will be
> = max_state * policy->max / max_freq;
> = 43 * (4000000/4500000) = 38 (3.8GHz)
> = 38
> which is 200MHz less than the desired.
> On core2, it will be correctly set to ratio 40 (4GHz). Same holds true
> for scaling min frequency limit. So this requires usage of correct turbo
> max frequency for core one, which in this case is 4.3GHz. So we need to
> adjust per CPU cpu->pstate.turbo_freq using the maximum HWP ratio of that
> core.
>
> This change uses the HWP capability of a core to adjust max turbo
> frequency. But since Broadwell HWP doesn't use ratios in the HWP
> capabilities, we have use legacy max 1 core turbo ratio. This is not a
> problem as the HWP capabilities don't differ among cores in Broadwell.
> So we need to check for non Broadwell CPU model for applying this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: 4.6+ <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.6+
> ---
> v2
> Backport friendly without any dependency on recent features.
>
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> index 1de5ec8d5ea3..ece120da3353 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ struct pstate_funcs {
> static struct pstate_funcs pstate_funcs __read_mostly;
>
> static int hwp_active __read_mostly;
> +static int hwp_mode_bdw __read_mostly;
> static bool per_cpu_limits __read_mostly;
> static bool hwp_boost __read_mostly;
>
> @@ -1413,7 +1414,15 @@ static void intel_pstate_get_cpu_pstates(struct cpudata *cpu)
> cpu->pstate.turbo_pstate = pstate_funcs.get_turbo();
> cpu->pstate.scaling = pstate_funcs.get_scaling();
> cpu->pstate.max_freq = cpu->pstate.max_pstate * cpu->pstate.scaling;
> - cpu->pstate.turbo_freq = cpu->pstate.turbo_pstate * cpu->pstate.scaling;
> +
> + if (hwp_active && !hwp_mode_bdw) {
> + unsigned int phy_max, current_max;
> +
> + intel_pstate_get_hwp_max(cpu->cpu, &phy_max, &current_max);
> + cpu->pstate.turbo_freq = phy_max * cpu->pstate.scaling;
> + } else {
> + cpu->pstate.turbo_freq = cpu->pstate.turbo_pstate * cpu->pstate.scaling;
> + }
>
> if (pstate_funcs.get_aperf_mperf_shift)
> cpu->aperf_mperf_shift = pstate_funcs.get_aperf_mperf_shift();
> @@ -2467,28 +2476,36 @@ static inline bool intel_pstate_has_acpi_ppc(void) { return false; }
> static inline void intel_pstate_request_control_from_smm(void) {}
> #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI */
>
> +#define INTEL_PSTATE_HWP_BROADWELL 0x01
> +
> +#define ICPU_HWP(model, hwp_mode) \
> + { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, model, X86_FEATURE_HWP, hwp_mode }
> +
> static const struct x86_cpu_id hwp_support_ids[] __initconst = {
> - { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, X86_MODEL_ANY, X86_FEATURE_HWP },
> + ICPU_HWP(INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X, INTEL_PSTATE_HWP_BROADWELL),
> + ICPU_HWP(INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_XEON_D, INTEL_PSTATE_HWP_BROADWELL),
> + ICPU_HWP(X86_MODEL_ANY, 0),
> {}
> };
>
> static int __init intel_pstate_init(void)
> {
> + const struct x86_cpu_id *id;
> int rc;
>
> if (no_load)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> - if (x86_match_cpu(hwp_support_ids)) {
> + id = x86_match_cpu(hwp_support_ids);
> + if (id) {
> copy_cpu_funcs(&core_funcs);
> if (!no_hwp) {
> hwp_active++;
> + hwp_mode_bdw = id->driver_data;
> intel_pstate.attr = hwp_cpufreq_attrs;
> goto hwp_cpu_matched;
> }
> } else {
> - const struct x86_cpu_id *id;
> -
> id = x86_match_cpu(intel_pstate_cpu_ids);
> if (!id)
> return -ENODEV;
>

Applied, thanks!