[v2] Disable FIE on machines with slow counters

[PATCH v2 0/1] Disable FIE on machines with slow counters

Jeremy Linton posted 1 patch 3 years, 8 months ago

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drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c       | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 19 ++++++++++++----
include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h       |  5 +++++
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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[PATCH v2 0/1] Disable FIE on machines with slow counters

Posted by Jeremy Linton 3 years, 8 months ago

FIE assumes the delivered/relative perf registers are fast to read so
it goes ahead and hits them quite frequently. On a couple Arm
platforms though they end up in PCC regions which require mailbox
handshaking with other parts of the platform.

This results in a lot of overhead in the cppc_fie task. As such lets
runtime disable FIE if we detect it enabled on one of those platforms.
Also allow the user to manually disable it via a module parameter.

v1->v2:
	Apply Rafael's review comments.
	Move the MODULE_PARAM into the ifdef
	Fix compiler warning when ACPI_CPPC_LIB is disabled.
	
Jeremy Linton (1):
  ACPI: CPPC: Disable FIE if registers in PCC regions

 drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c       | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 19 ++++++++++++----
 include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h       |  5 +++++
 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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