[PATCH v2 1/1] arm: topology: remove cpu_efficiency
Vincent Guittot
vincent.guittot at linaro.org
Tue Oct 17 05:28:01 PDT 2017
Hi Dietmar,
On 12 October 2017 at 16:00, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann at arm.com> wrote:
> Remove the 'cpu_efficiency/clock-frequency dt property' based solution
> to set cpu capacity which was only working for Cortex-A15/A7 arm
> big.LITTLE systems.
>
> I.e. the 'capacity-dmips-mhz' based solution is now the only one. It is
> shared between arm and arm64 and works for every big.LITTLE system no
> matter which core types it consists of.
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>
> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 132 ++-------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> index 24ac3cab411d..15cc131ae387 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -30,69 +30,11 @@
> #include <asm/cputype.h>
> #include <asm/topology.h>
>
> -/*
> - * cpu capacity scale management
> - */
> -
> -/*
> - * cpu capacity table
> - * This per cpu data structure describes the relative capacity of each core.
> - * On a heteregenous system, cores don't have the same computation capacity
> - * and we reflect that difference in the cpu_capacity field so the scheduler
> - * can take this difference into account during load balance. A per cpu
> - * structure is preferred because each CPU updates its own cpu_capacity field
> - * during the load balance except for idle cores. One idle core is selected
> - * to run the rebalance_domains for all idle cores and the cpu_capacity can be
> - * updated during this sequence.
> - */
> -
> #ifdef CONFIG_OF
> -struct cpu_efficiency {
> - const char *compatible;
> - unsigned long efficiency;
> -};
> -
> -/*
> - * Table of relative efficiency of each processors
> - * The efficiency value must fit in 20bit and the final
> - * cpu_scale value must be in the range
> - * 0 < cpu_scale < 3*SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/2
> - * in order to return at most 1 when DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST
> - * is used to compute the capacity of a CPU.
> - * Processors that are not defined in the table,
> - * use the default SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE value for cpu_scale.
> - */
> -static const struct cpu_efficiency table_efficiency[] = {
> - {"arm,cortex-a15", 3891},
> - {"arm,cortex-a7", 2048},
> - {NULL, },
> -};
> -
> -static unsigned long *__cpu_capacity;
> -#define cpu_capacity(cpu) __cpu_capacity[cpu]
> -
> -static unsigned long middle_capacity = 1;
> -static bool cap_from_dt = true;
> -
> -/*
> - * Iterate all CPUs' descriptor in DT and compute the efficiency
> - * (as per table_efficiency). Also calculate a middle efficiency
> - * as close as possible to (max{eff_i} - min{eff_i}) / 2
> - * This is later used to scale the cpu_capacity field such that an
> - * 'average' CPU is of middle capacity. Also see the comments near
> - * table_efficiency[] and update_cpu_capacity().
> - */
> static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
> {
> - const struct cpu_efficiency *cpu_eff;
> - struct device_node *cn = NULL;
> - unsigned long min_capacity = ULONG_MAX;
> - unsigned long max_capacity = 0;
> - unsigned long capacity = 0;
> - int cpu = 0;
> -
> - __cpu_capacity = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*__cpu_capacity),
> - GFP_NOWAIT);
> + struct device_node *cn;
> + int cpu;
>
> cn = of_find_node_by_path("/cpus");
> if (!cn) {
> @@ -101,9 +43,6 @@ static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
> }
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> - const u32 *rate;
> - int len;
> -
> /* too early to use cpu->of_node */
> cn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
> if (!cn) {
> @@ -111,76 +50,15 @@ static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
> continue;
> }
>
> - if (topology_parse_cpu_capacity(cn, cpu)) {
> + if (topology_parse_cpu_capacity(cn, cpu))
> of_node_put(cn);
We should call the of_node_put unconditionally to balance the
of_get_cpu_node, isn't it ?
Note that this problem is also present without your change
> - continue;
> - }
> -
> - cap_from_dt = false;
> -
> - for (cpu_eff = table_efficiency; cpu_eff->compatible; cpu_eff++)
> - if (of_device_is_compatible(cn, cpu_eff->compatible))
> - break;
> -
> - if (cpu_eff->compatible == NULL)
> - continue;
> -
> - rate = of_get_property(cn, "clock-frequency", &len);
> - if (!rate || len != 4) {
> - pr_err("%pOF missing clock-frequency property\n", cn);
> - continue;
> - }
> -
> - capacity = ((be32_to_cpup(rate)) >> 20) * cpu_eff->efficiency;
> -
> - /* Save min capacity of the system */
> - if (capacity < min_capacity)
> - min_capacity = capacity;
> -
> - /* Save max capacity of the system */
> - if (capacity > max_capacity)
> - max_capacity = capacity;
> -
> - cpu_capacity(cpu) = capacity;
> }
>
> - /* If min and max capacities are equals, we bypass the update of the
> - * cpu_scale because all CPUs have the same capacity. Otherwise, we
> - * compute a middle_capacity factor that will ensure that the capacity
> - * of an 'average' CPU of the system will be as close as possible to
> - * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE, which is the default value, but with the
> - * constraint explained near table_efficiency[].
> - */
> - if (4*max_capacity < (3*(max_capacity + min_capacity)))
> - middle_capacity = (min_capacity + max_capacity)
> - >> (SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT+1);
> - else
> - middle_capacity = ((max_capacity / 3)
> - >> (SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT-1)) + 1;
> -
> - if (cap_from_dt)
> - topology_normalize_cpu_scale();
> -}
> -
> -/*
> - * Look for a customed capacity of a CPU in the cpu_capacity table during the
> - * boot. The update of all CPUs is in O(n^2) for heteregeneous system but the
> - * function returns directly for SMP system.
> - */
> -static void update_cpu_capacity(unsigned int cpu)
> -{
> - if (!cpu_capacity(cpu) || cap_from_dt)
> - return;
> -
> - topology_set_cpu_scale(cpu, cpu_capacity(cpu) / middle_capacity);
> -
> - pr_info("CPU%u: update cpu_capacity %lu\n",
> - cpu, topology_get_cpu_scale(NULL, cpu));
> + topology_normalize_cpu_scale();
> }
>
> #else
> static inline void parse_dt_topology(void) {}
> -static inline void update_cpu_capacity(unsigned int cpuid) {}
> #endif
>
> /*
> @@ -276,8 +154,6 @@ void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
>
> update_siblings_masks(cpuid);
>
> - update_cpu_capacity(cpuid);
> -
> pr_info("CPU%u: thread %d, cpu %d, socket %d, mpidr %x\n",
> cpuid, cpu_topology[cpuid].thread_id,
> cpu_topology[cpuid].core_id,
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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