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Performance states and energy consumption values are not advertised in ACPI. In the GicC structure of the MADT table, the "Processor Power Efficiency Class field" (called efficiency class from now) allows to describe the relative energy efficiency of CPUs. To leverage the EM and EAS, the CPPC driver creates a set of artificial performance states and registers them in the Energy Model (EM), such as: - Every 20 capacity unit, a performance state is created. - The energy cost of each performance state gradually increases. No power value is generated as only the cost is used in the EM. During task placement, a task can raise the frequency of its whole pd. This can make EAS place a task on a pd with CPUs that are individually less energy efficient. As cost values are artificial, and to place tasks on CPUs with the lower efficiency class, a gap in cost values is generated for adjacent efficiency classes. E.g.: - efficiency class = 0, capacity is in [0-1024], so cost values are in [0: 51] (one performance state every 20 capacity unit) - efficiency class = 1, capacity is in [0-1024], cost values are in [1*gap+0: 1*gap+51]. The value of the cost gap is chosen to absorb a the energy of 4 CPUs at their maximum capacity. This means that between: 1- a pd of 4 CPUs, each of them being used at almost their full capacity. Their efficiency class is N. 2- a CPU using almost none of its capacity. Its efficiency class is N+1 EAS will choose the first option. This patch also populates the (struct cpufreq_driver).register_em callback if the valid efficiency_class ACPI values are provided. Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@arm.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.