On Monday, April 01, 2013 02:38:39 PM Jacob Shin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 08:18:54AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > On 28 March 2013 23:54, Jacob Shin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This patchset adds AMD specific powersave bias function to the ondemand > > > governor; which can be used to help ondemand governor make more power > > > conscious > > > frequency change decisions based on feedback from hardware (availble on > > > AMD > > > Family 16h and above). > > > > > > Hardware feedback tells software how "sensitive" to frequency changes the > > > workloads are. CPU-bound workloads will be more sensitive -- they will > > > perform better as frequency increases. Memory/IO-bound workloads will be > > > less > > > sensitive -- they will not necessarily perform better as frequnecy > > > increases. > > > > > > This patchset was compared against ondemand governor without powersave > > > bias > > > and did not show any performance degradation on CPU-bound workloads such > > > as > > > kernbench and unixbench. While saving power on Memory-bound workloads > > > such as > > > stream. > > > > > > This applies to linux-pm's linux-next branch, on top of Viresh's > > > 'Implement > > > per policy instance of governor' V4 patchset: > > > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/27/348 > > > > > > V2: > > > * Added proper include files to amd_freq_sensitivity.c > > > * Only register powersave_bias_target function pointer and not the entire > > > od_ops. > > > > > > Jacob Shin (2): > > > cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target function to be > > > registered > > > cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for > > > ondemand governor > > > > > > arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h | 1 + > > > drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86 | 10 +++ > > > drivers/cpufreq/Makefile | 1 + > > > drivers/cpufreq/amd_freq_sensitivity.c | 147 > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h | 3 + > > > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 22 ++++- > > > 6 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > create mode 100644 drivers/cpufreq/amd_freq_sensitivity.c > > > > Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]> > > > > Hi Rafael, > > If this looks okay to you, > please commit to linux-next when you get the chance.
OK, I wonder what Boris thinks about it, though. Boris, could you please have a look at this and let me know what you think? Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
