amd-cppc is the AMD CPU performance scaling driver that introduces a
new CPU frequency control mechanism on modern AMD APU and CPU series in
Xen. The new mechanism is based on Collaborative Processor Performance
Control (CPPC) which provides finer grain frequency management than
legacy ACPI hardware P-States. Current AMD CPU/APU platforms are using
the ACPI P-states driver to manage CPU frequency and clocks with
switching only in 3 P-states. CPPC replaces the ACPI P-states controls
and allows a flexible, low-latency interface for Xen to directly
communicate the performance hints to hardware.
amd_cppc driver has 2 operation modes: autonomous (active) mode,
and non-autonomous (passive) mode. We register different CPUFreq driver
for different modes, "amd-cppc" for passive mode and "amd-cppc-epp"
for active mode.
The passive mode leverages common governors such as *ondemand*,
*performance*, etc, to manage the performance tuning. While the active mode
uses epp to provides a hint to the hardware if software wants to bias
toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff). CPPC power algorithm
in hardware will automatically calculate the runtime workload and adjust the
realtime cpu cores frequency according to the power supply and thermal, core
voltage and some other hardware conditions.
amd-cppc is enabled on passive mode with a top-level `cpufreq=amd-cppc` option,
while users add extra `active` flag to select active mode.
With `cpufreq=amd-cppc,active`, we did a 60s sampling test to see the CPU
frequency change, through tweaking the energy_perf preference from
`xenpm set-cpufreq-cppc powersave` to `xenpm set-cpufreq-cppc performance`.
The outputs are as follows:
```
Setting CPU in powersave mode
Sampling and Outputs:
Avg freq 580000 KHz
Avg freq 580000 KHz
Avg freq 580000 KHz
Setting CPU in performance mode
Sampling and Outputs:
Avg freq 4640000 KHz
Avg freq 4220000 KHz
Avg freq 4640000 KHz
Penny Zheng (13):
tools: drop "has_num" condition check for cppc mode
cpufreq: rename "xen_cppc_para" to "xen_get_cppc_para"
tools: fix help info for "xenpm set-cpufreq-cppc"
xen/cpufreq: add missing default: case for x86 vendor
xen/cpufreq: refactor cmdline "cpufreq=xxx"
xen/cpufreq: introduce new sub-hypercall to propagate CPPC data
xen/cpufreq: introduce "cpufreq=amd-cppc" xen cmdline and amd-cppc
driver
xen/cpufreq: implement amd-cppc driver for CPPC in passive mode
xen/cpufreq: implement amd-cppc-epp driver for CPPC in active mode
xen/cpufreq: get performance policy from governor set via xenpm
tools/cpufreq: extract CPPC para from cpufreq para
xen/cpufreq: bypass governor-related para for amd-cppc-epp
xen/cpufreq: Adapt SET/GET_CPUFREQ_CPPC xen_sysctl_pm_op for amd-cppc
driver
docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc | 14 +-
tools/include/xenctrl.h | 5 +-
tools/libs/ctrl/xc_pm.c | 69 +-
tools/misc/xenpm.c | 104 ++-
xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/Makefile | 1 +
xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/amd-cppc.c | 774 ++++++++++++++++++++++
xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 76 ++-
xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/hwp.c | 2 +-
xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c | 8 +-
xen/arch/x86/include/asm/amd.h | 2 +
xen/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 6 +
xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c | 19 +
xen/arch/x86/x86_64/cpufreq.c | 19 +
xen/arch/x86/x86_64/platform_hypercall.c | 3 +
xen/drivers/acpi/pm-op.c | 48 +-
xen/drivers/acpi/pmstat.c | 4 +
xen/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 204 +++++-
xen/drivers/cpufreq/utility.c | 15 +
xen/include/acpi/cpufreq/cpufreq.h | 28 +-
xen/include/acpi/cpufreq/processor_perf.h | 14 +-
xen/include/public/platform.h | 26 +
xen/include/public/sysctl.h | 15 +-
xen/include/xen/pmstat.h | 5 +
xen/include/xlat.lst | 1 +
24 files changed, 1368 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/amd-cppc.c
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