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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2006-10-03 15:38:45 -0400
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2006-10-15 19:57:11 -0400
commitdfde5d62ed9b28b0bda676c16e8cb635df244ef2 (patch)
tree12c690189fcc7155389860beae554199456b7d3e /include/linux
parenta6f6e6e6ab464c9d1dff66570b78be2f66d8ba3d (diff)
[CPUFREQ][8/8] acpi-cpufreq: Add support for freq feedback from hardware
Enable ondemand governor and acpi-cpufreq to use IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSR to get active frequency feedback for the last sampling interval. This will make ondemand take right frequency decisions when hardware coordination of frequency is going on. Without APERF/MPERF, ondemand can take wrong decision at times due to underlying hardware coordination or TM2. Example: * CPU 0 and CPU 1 are hardware cooridnated. * CPU 1 running at highest frequency. * CPU 0 was running at highest freq. Now ondemand reduces it to some intermediate frequency based on utilization. * Due to underlying hardware coordination with other CPU 1, CPU 0 continues to run at highest frequency (as long as other CPU is at highest). * When ondemand samples CPU 0 again next time, without actual frequency feedback from APERF/MPERF, it will think that previous frequency change was successful and can go to wrong target frequency. This is because it thinks that utilization it has got this sampling interval is when running at intermediate frequency, rather than actual highest frequency. More information about IA32_APERF IA32_MPERF MSR: Refer to IA-32 IntelĀ® Architecture Software Developer's Manual at http://developer.intel.com Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cpufreq.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index 4ea39fee99c7..7f008f6bfdc3 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ extern int __cpufreq_driver_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
172 unsigned int relation); 172 unsigned int relation);
173 173
174 174
175extern int cpufreq_driver_getavg(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
176
175int cpufreq_register_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor); 177int cpufreq_register_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor);
176void cpufreq_unregister_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor); 178void cpufreq_unregister_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor);
177 179
@@ -204,6 +206,7 @@ struct cpufreq_driver {
204 unsigned int (*get) (unsigned int cpu); 206 unsigned int (*get) (unsigned int cpu);
205 207
206 /* optional */ 208 /* optional */
209 unsigned int (*getavg) (unsigned int cpu);
207 int (*exit) (struct cpufreq_policy *policy); 210 int (*exit) (struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
208 int (*suspend) (struct cpufreq_policy *policy, pm_message_t pmsg); 211 int (*suspend) (struct cpufreq_policy *policy, pm_message_t pmsg);
209 int (*resume) (struct cpufreq_policy *policy); 212 int (*resume) (struct cpufreq_policy *policy);