If an MSR based monitor is run in parallel this is not needed. This is the
default case on all/most Intel machines.
But when only sysfs info is read via cpupower monitor -m Idle_Stats (typically
the case for non root users) or when other monitors are PCI based (AMD),
Idle_Stats, read from sysfs can be totally bogus:
cpupower monitor -m Idle_Stats
PKG |CORE|CPU | POLL | C1-N | C3-N | C6-N
0| 0| 0| 0.00| 0.00| 0.24| 99.81
0| 0| 32| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 100.7
...
0| 17| 20| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 173.1
0| 17| 52| 0.00| 0.00| 0.07| 173.0
0| 18| 68| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00
0| 18| 76| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00
...
With the -c option all cores are woken up and the kernel
did update cpuidle statistics before reading out sysfs.
This causes some overhead. Therefore avoid if possible, use
if needed:
cpupower monitor -c -m Idle_Stats
PKG |CORE|CPU | POLL | C1-N | C3-N | C6-N
0| 0| 0| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 100.2
0| 0| 32| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 100.2
...
0| 8| 8| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 99.82
0| 8| 40| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 99.81
0| 9| 24| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 100.3
0| 9| 56| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 100.2
0| 16| 4| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 99.75
0| 16| 36| 0.00| 0.00| 0.00| 99.38
...
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The cpu_info member of cpupower_topology was being declared as an unnamed
structure. This member was then being malloced using the size of the
parent cpupower_topology * the number of cpus. This works
because cpu_info is smaller than cpupower_topology. However, there is
no guarantee that will always be the case. Making cpu_info its own
top level structure (named cpuid_core_info) allows for mallocing the actual
size of this structure. This also lets us get rid of a redefinition of
the structure in topology.c with slightly different field names.
Signed-off-by: Palmer Cox <p@lmercox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
AMD's BKDG (Bios and Kernel Developers Guide) talks in the CPU spec of their
CPU families about PCI registers defined by "device" (slot) and func(tion).
Assuming that CPU specific configuration PCI devices are always on domain
and bus zero a pci_slot_func_init() func which gets the slot and func of
the desired PCI device passed looks like the most convenient way.
This also obsoletes the PCI device id maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Loosely based on a patch for cpufrequtils, submittted by
Sergey Dryabzhinsky <sergey.dryabzhinsky@gmail.com> and
signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Before, checking for offlined CPUs was done dirty and
it was checked whether topology parsing returned -1 values.
But this is a valid case on a Xen (and possibly other) kernels.
Do proper online/offline checking, also take CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
option into account (no /sys/devices/../cpuX/online file).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
IA32-Intel Devel guide Volume 3A - 14.3.2.1
-------------------------------------------
...
Opportunistic processor performance operation can be disabled by setting bit 38 of
IA32_MISC_ENABLES. This mechanism is intended for BIOS only. If
IA32_MISC_ENABLES[38] is set, CPUID.06H:EAX[1] will return 0.
Better detect things via cpuid, this cleans up the code a bit
and the MSR parts were not working correctly anyway.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: lenb@kernel.org
CC: linux@dominikbrodowski.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
This adds the last piece missing from turbostat (if called with -v).
It shows on Intel machines supporting Turbo Boost how many cores
have to be active/idle to enter which boost mode (frequency).
Whether the HW really enters these boost modes can be verified via
./cpupower monitor.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: lenb@kernel.org
CC: linux@dominikbrodowski.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
CPU power consumption vs performance tuning is no longer
limited to CPU frequency switching anymore: deep sleep states,
traditional dynamic frequency scaling and hidden turbo/boost
frequencies are tied close together and depend on each other.
The first two exist on different architectures like PPC, Itanium and
ARM, the latter (so far) only on X86. On X86 the APU (CPU+GPU) will
only run most efficiently if CPU and GPU has proper power management
in place.
Users and Developers want to have *one* tool to get an overview what
their system supports and to monitor and debug CPU power management
in detail. The tool should compile and work on as many architectures
as possible.
Once this tool stabilizes a bit, it is intended to replace the
Intel-specific tools in tools/power/x86
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
