Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Track and expose idle PURR and SPURR ticks

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 09:30:27 EST


"Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This is the fifth version of the patches to track and expose idle PURR
> and SPURR ticks. These patches are required by tools such as lparstat
> to compute system utilization for capacity planning purposes.
>
> The previous versions can be found here:
> v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/27/323
> v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/11/331
> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/21/21
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1159341/
>
> They changes from v4 are:
>
> - As suggested by Naveen, moved the functions read_this_idle_purr()
> and read_this_idle_spurr() from Patch 2 and Patch 3 respectively
> to Patch 4 where it is invoked.
>
> - Dropped Patch 6 which cached the values of purr, spurr,
> idle_purr, idle_spurr in order to minimize the number of IPIs
> sent.
>
> - Updated the dates for the idle_purr, idle_spurr in the
> Documentation Patch 5.

LGTM

Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.