On 02/05/2014 03:26 μμ, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, May 01, 2014 06:48:08 PM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
>> On 05/01/2014 04:18 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:30:42 PM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
>>>> On 05/01/2014 02:00 PM, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
>>>>> Currently the driver calculates the next pstate proportional to
>>>>> core_busy factor, scaled by the ratio max_pstate / current_pstate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using the scaled load (core_busy) to calculate the next pstate
>>>>> is not always correct, because there are cases that the load is
>>>>> independent from current pstate. For example, a tight 'for' loop
>>>>> through many sampling intervals will cause a load of 100% in
>>>>> every pstate.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, change the above method and calculate the next pstate with
>>>>> the assumption that the next pstate should not depend on the
>>>>> current pstate. The next pstate should only be directly
>>>>> proportional to measured load.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested on Intel i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz.
>>>>> Phoronix benchmark of Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 test shows an
>>>>> increase ~1.5% in performance. Below the test results using turbostat
>>>>> (5 iterations):
>>>>>
>>>>> Without patch:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ph. avg Time Total time PkgWatt Total Energy
>>>>> 79.63 266.416 57.74 15382.85984
>>>>> 79.63 265.609 57.87 15370.79283
>>>>> 79.57 266.994 57.54 15362.83476
>>>>> 79.53 265.304 57.83 15342.53032
>>>>> 79.71 265.977 57.76 15362.83152
>>>>> avg 79.61 266.06 57.74 15364.36985
>>>>>
>>>>> With patch:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ph. avg Time Total time PkgWatt Total Energy
>>>>> 78.23 258.826 59.14 15306.96964
>>>>> 78.41 259.110 59.15 15326.35650
>>>>> 78.40 258.530 59.26 15320.48780
>>>>> 78.46 258.673 59.20 15313.44160
>>>>> 78.19 259.075 59.16 15326.87700
>>>>> avg 78.34 258.842 59.18 15318.82650
>>>>>
>>>>> The total test time reduced by ~2.6%, while the total energy
>>>>> consumption during a test iteration reduced by ~0.35%
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes v1 -> v2
>>>>> - Enhance change log as Rafael and Viresh suggested
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 15 +++++++--------
>>>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
>>>>> index 0999673..8e309db 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
>>>>> @@ -608,28 +608,27 @@ static inline void intel_pstate_set_sample_time(struct cpudata *cpu)
>>>>> mod_timer_pinned(&cpu->timer, jiffies + delay);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> -static inline int32_t intel_pstate_get_scaled_busy(struct cpudata *cpu)
>>>>> +static inline int32_t intel_pstate_get_busy(struct cpudata *cpu)
>>>>> {
>>>>> - int32_t core_busy, max_pstate, current_pstate;
>>>>> + int32_t core_busy, max_pstate;
>>>>>
>>>>> core_busy = cpu->sample.core_pct_busy;
>>>>> max_pstate = int_tofp(cpu->pstate.max_pstate);
>>>>> - current_pstate = int_tofp(cpu->pstate.current_pstate);
>>>>> - core_busy = mul_fp(core_busy, div_fp(max_pstate, current_pstate));
>>>>> + core_busy = mul_fp(core_busy, max_pstate);
>>>>
>>>> NAK, The goal of this code is to find out how busy the core is at the current
>>>> P state. This change will return a value WAY too high.
>>>>
>>>> Assume core_busy is 100 and the max non-turbo P state is 34 (3.4GHz) this code
>>>> would return a busy value of 3400. The PID is trying to keep the busy value
>>>> at the setpoint any value of ~3% will drive the P state to the highest turbo
>>>> P state in this example.
>>>
>>> Well, the problem is that the numbers above indicate an improvement in energy
>>> efficiency as a result of this patch and we need to explain that result.
>>>
>> The performance governor is the best option for this workload.
>>
>> This change will give you the highest trubo for all but very idle work loads.
>
> I see.
>
>> Lets say you have a processor with max P state of 3.4GHz The current P state
>> is 1.6 GHz so if the processor was 100% in C0 the core_busy values would be
>> 47% This number scaled would be 100%. With the change above the PID would be
>> reacting to a load of 1598%. APERF/MPERF give you the percent of entire
>> core scaling it lets you find out how busy your are within the cureent P state.
>
> OK
>
> Stratos seems to be arguing that we can achieve better results, in therms of
> both performance and energy efficiency, if we disregard the history and only
> take the current situation into account. The patch itself may not be correct,
> but the idea is worth consideration in my opinion, especially in the face
> of the fact that we made a similar change in cpufreq and the results improved.
>
>
First of all, thank you very much all of you for your time reviewing this patch and
for your help!
With the hope that I will not waste more your time, I will try to implement
correctly this assumption, and test it.
My first thought, after Dirk's explanation, is to try to fix the logic in the patch
using the c0_pct as the core_pct_busy in the intel_pstate_calc_busy function. Thus:
- sample->core_pct_busy = mul_fp(core_pct, c0_pct);
+ sample->core_pct_busy = c0_pct;
But, I'm not sure if c0_pct is (always) equivalent to CPU load.
Otherwise, I will try to get the absolute load using the get_cpu_idle_time_us and
calculate the next pstate directly proportional to this load.
Thanks,
Stratos
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