Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Register an Energy Model for Arm reference platforms

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 23:55:42 EST


On 04-02-19, 11:09, Quentin Perret wrote:
> The Energy Model (EM) framework feeds interested subsystems (the
> scheduler/EAS as of now) with power costs provided by drivers. Yet, no
> driver is actually doing that upstream yet. This series updates a set of
> CPUFreq drivers in order to register power costs in the EM framework for
> some of the Arm reference platforms for EAS: Hikey960, Juno and TC2.
>
> The series is split as follows:
> - Patch 01 introduces in PM_OPP a helper function which estimates the
> CPU power using the P=CV²f equation also used by IPA. It should be
> noted that this introduces duplicate code with IPA, which will
> eventually be fixed by migrating IPA to using PM_EM. The ideal plan
> would be to do so later, in a separate patch series. I would indeed
> prefer to keep the thermal and CPUFreq discussion separate at this
> stage, if deemed acceptable.
> - Patches 02-04 make use of that PM_OPP helper function from the
> following CPUFreq drivers: cpufreq-dt, scpi-cpufreq and
> arm_big_little.
> - Patch 05 modifies the SCMI cpufreq driver to pass the power costs
> obtained from firmware to PM_EM. This patch is independent from the
> rest of the series.
>
>
> Changes since v3 (20190201093101.31869-1-quentin.perret@xxxxxxx)
> - Moved the OPP count inside dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() (Matthias,
> Sudeep)

Applied. Thanks.

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viresh