Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] cpufreq: ACPI: Update arch scale-invariance max perf ratio if CPPC is not there

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:59 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 06:34:32PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> >  arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c      |    1 +
> >  drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c |    8 ++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> > +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> > @@ -806,6 +806,14 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct
> >               state_count++;
> >               valid_states++;
> >               data->first_perf_state = valid_states;
> > +     } else {
> > +             /*
> > +              * If the maximum "boost" frequency is unknown, ask the arch
> > +              * scale-invariance code to use the "nominal" performance for
> > +              * CPU utilization scaling so as to prevent the schedutil
> > +              * governor from selecting inadequate CPU frequencies.
> > +              */
> > +             arch_set_max_freq_ratio(true);
> >       }
> >
> >       freq_table = kcalloc(state_count, sizeof(*freq_table), GFP_KERNEL);
> > Index: linux-pm/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > +++ linux-pm/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > @@ -1833,6 +1833,7 @@ void arch_set_max_freq_ratio(bool turbo_
> >       arch_max_freq_ratio = turbo_disabled ? SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE :
> >                                       arch_turbo_freq_ratio;
> >  }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_set_max_freq_ratio);
>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I'm queuing up this lot for a post-rc7 late push.