[PATCH v4 3/4] arm64: Update AMU-based frequency scale factor on entering idle

Beata Michalska beata.michalska at arm.com
Fri Apr 5 06:33:18 PDT 2024


Now that the frequency scale factor has been activated for retrieving
current frequency on a given CPU, trigger its update upon entering
idle. This will, to an extent, allow querying last known frequency
in a non-invasive way. It will also improve the frequency scale factor
accuracy when a CPU entering idle did not receive a tick for a while.
As a consequence, for idle cores, the reported frequency will be the
last one observed before entering the idle state.

Suggested-by: Vanshidhar Konda <vanshikonda at os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Beata Michalska <beata.michalska at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index b03fe8617721..f204f6489f98 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -207,6 +207,19 @@ static struct scale_freq_data amu_sfd = {
 	.set_freq_scale = amu_scale_freq_tick,
 };
 
+void arch_cpu_idle_enter(void)
+{
+	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, amu_fie_cpus))
+		return;
+
+	/* Kick in AMU update but only if one has not happened already */
+	if (housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_TICK) &&
+	    time_is_before_jiffies(per_cpu(cpu_amu_samples.last_update, cpu)))
+		amu_scale_freq_tick();
+}
+
 #define AMU_SAMPLE_EXP_MS	20
 
 unsigned int arch_freq_get_on_cpu(int cpu)
@@ -232,8 +245,8 @@ unsigned int arch_freq_get_on_cpu(int cpu)
 	 * this boils down to identifying an active cpu within the same freq
 	 * domain, if any.
 	 */
-	if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_TICK) ||
-	    time_is_before_jiffies(last_update + msecs_to_jiffies(AMU_SAMPLE_EXP_MS))) {
+	if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_TICK) || (!idle_cpu(cpu) &&
+	    time_is_before_jiffies(last_update + msecs_to_jiffies(AMU_SAMPLE_EXP_MS)))) {
 		struct cpufreq_policy *policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
 		int ref_cpu = cpu;
 
-- 
2.25.1




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