Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 5 authors, 2021-07-07

Re: [PATCH 2/3] PM: EM: Make em_cpu_energy() able to return bigger values

From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Date: 2021-07-05 12:45:12
Also in: lkml

On 25/06/2021 17:26, Lukasz Luba wrote:
The Energy Model (EM) em_cpu_energy() is responsible for providing good
estimation regarding CPUs energy. It contains proper data structures which
are then used during calculation. The values stored in there are in
milli-Watts precision (or in abstract scale) smaller that 0xffff, which use
I guess you refer to 'if (... || power > EM_MAX_POWER)' check in
em_create_perf_table() [kernel/power/energy_model.c].
sufficient unsigned long even on 32-bit machines. There are scenarios where
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^

Can you describe these scenarios better with one example (EAS placement
of an example task on a 2 PD system) which highlights the issue and how
it this patch-set solves it?

In this example you can list all the things which must be there to
create a situation in EAS in which the patch-set helps.
we would like to provide calculated estimations in a better precision and
the values might be 1000 times bigger. This patch makes possible to use
Where is this `1000` coming from?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
quite big values for also 32-bit machines.

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
---
 include/linux/energy_model.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/energy_model.h b/include/linux/energy_model.h
index 3f221dbf5f95..2016f5a706e0 100644
--- a/include/linux/energy_model.h
+++ b/include/linux/energy_model.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ void em_dev_unregister_perf_domain(struct device *dev);
  * Return: the sum of the energy consumed by the CPUs of the domain assuming
  * a capacity state satisfying the max utilization of the domain.
  */
-static inline unsigned long em_cpu_energy(struct em_perf_domain *pd,
+static inline u64 em_cpu_energy(struct em_perf_domain *pd,
 				unsigned long max_util, unsigned long sum_util,
 				unsigned long allowed_cpu_cap)
 {
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static inline unsigned long em_cpu_energy(struct em_perf_domain *pd,
 	 *   pd_nrg = ------------------------                       (4)
 	 *                  scale_cpu
 	 */
-	return ps->cost * sum_util / scale_cpu;
+	return div_u64((u64)ps->cost * sum_util, scale_cpu);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static inline struct em_perf_domain *em_pd_get(struct device *dev)
 {
 	return NULL;
 }
-static inline unsigned long em_cpu_energy(struct em_perf_domain *pd,
+static inline u64 em_cpu_energy(struct em_perf_domain *pd,
 			unsigned long max_util, unsigned long sum_util,
 			unsigned long allowed_cpu_cap)
 {
  
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