Make iowait boost a cpufreq policy option and enable it for intel_pstate
cpufreq driver. Governors like schedutil can use it to determine if
boosting for tasks that wake up with p->in_iowait set is needed.
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruv...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joe...@google.com>
---
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 1 +
include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index b7de5bd76a31..5dddc21da4f6 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -2239,6 +2239,7 @@ static int intel_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy
*policy)
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = INTEL_CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_LATENCY;
policy->transition_delay_us = INTEL_CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_DELAY;
+ policy->iowait_boost_enable = true;
/* This reflects the intel_pstate_get_cpu_pstates() setting. */
policy->cur = policy->cpuinfo.min_freq;
diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index a5ce0bbeadb5..0783d8b52ec8 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
*/
unsigned int transition_delay_us;
+ /* Boost switch for tasks with p->in_iowait set */
+ bool iowait_boost_enable;
+
/* Cached frequency lookup from cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq. */
unsigned int cached_target_freq;
int cached_resolved_idx;
--
2.13.0.303.g4ebf302169-goog
