Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM / EM: and devices to Energy Model

[Dietmar Eggemann]

On 20/01/2020 19:38, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/20/20 6:27 PM, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
>> On 20/01/2020 16:09, Quentin Perret wrote:
>>> Hey Lukasz,
>>>
>>> On Monday 20 Jan 2020 at 14:52:07 (+0000), Lukasz Luba wrote:
>>>> On 1/17/20 10:54 AM, Quentin Perret wrote:

[...]

>> It's true that we need the policy->cpus cpumask only for cpu devices and
>> we have it available when we call em_register_perf_domain()
>> [scmi-cpufreq.c driver] or the OPP wrapper dev_pm_opp_of_register_em()
>> [e.g. cpufreq-dt.c driver].
>>
>> And we shouldn't make EM code dependent on OPP.
>>
>> But can't we add 'struct cpumask *mask' as an additional argument to
>> both which can be set to NULL for (devfreq) devices?
>>
>> We can check in em_register_perf_domain() that we got a valid cpumask
>> for a cpu device and ignore it for (devfreq) devices.
>>
> 
> I think we could avoid this additional argument 'cpumask'. I have
> checked the cpufreq_cpu_get function, which should do be good for this:
> 
> ---------->8-------------------------
> static int _get_sharing_cpus(struct device *cpu_dev, struct cpumask *span)
> {
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
> 
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu_dev->id);
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ if (policy) {
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ cpumask_copy(span, policy->cpus);
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ return 0;
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ } else {
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ return -EINVAL;
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ }
> }
> --------------------------8<-------------------------------
> 
> It would be a replacement for:
> ret = dev_pm_opp_get_sharing_cpus(dev, span);

True. But then we hard-code that a CPU device performance domain can
only be a frequency domain (which is true today).

The task scheduler (build_perf_domains()) and thermal are already using
cpufreq_cpu_get() to access the cpufreq policy. Now the EM framework
would too for CPU devices. I assume that could work with a couple of
adaptations in Documentation/power/energy-model.rst.

BTW, there is a similar interface cpufreq_get_policy() in cpufreq.c
which is used less often?