[PATCH v2 0/4] Energy Model power in micro-Watts and SCMI v3.1 alignment

Lukasz Luba lukasz.luba at arm.com
Thu Jul 7 03:46:59 PDT 2022


Hi Rafael,

On 7/7/22 08:15, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a patch set which changes Energy Model power values scale to
> micro-Watts. It also upgrades the SCMI performance layer + scmi-cpufreq
> driver to leverage the SCMI v3.1 spec and process micro-Watts power values
> coming from FW. The higher precision in EM power field solves an issue
> of a rounding error, which then can be misinterpreted as 'inefficient OPP'.
> An example rounding issue calculation is present in patch 1/4 description.
> 
> Changes:
> v2
> - simplified 32bit checks for max number of CPUs preventing energy
>    estimation overflow
> - added Reviewed-by and ACKs
> v1 [1]
> 
> Regards,
> Lukasz Luba
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220622145802.13032-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com/
> 
> Lukasz Luba (4):
>    PM: EM: convert power field to micro-Watts precision and align drivers
>    Documentation: EM: Switch to micro-Watts scale
>    firmware: arm_scmi: Get detailed power scale from perf
>    cpufreq: scmi: Support the power scale in micro-Watts in SCMI v3.1
> 
>   Documentation/power/energy-model.rst  | 14 +++----
>   drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c |  7 ++--
>   drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c        | 15 +++++++-
>   drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/perf.c      | 18 +++++----
>   drivers/opp/of.c                      | 15 ++++----
>   drivers/powercap/dtpm_cpu.c           |  5 +--
>   drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c     | 13 ++++++-
>   drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c     | 19 ++++++++--
>   include/linux/energy_model.h          | 54 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>   include/linux/scmi_protocol.h         |  8 +++-
>   kernel/power/energy_model.c           | 24 ++++++++----
>   11 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 

I got ACKs (and on Reviewed-by) for this patch set.
Could you take this via your PM tree, please?



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