Pierre Gondois ea1f295841 cpufreq: CPPC: Fix performance/frequency conversion
[ Upstream commit ec1c7ad476 ]

CPUfreq governors request CPU frequencies using information
on current CPU usage. The CPPC driver converts them to
performance requests. Frequency targets are computed as:
	target_freq = (util / cpu_capacity) * max_freq
target_freq is then clamped between [policy->min, policy->max].

The CPPC driver converts performance values to frequencies
(and vice-versa) using cppc_cpufreq_perf_to_khz() and
cppc_cpufreq_khz_to_perf(). These functions both use two different
factors depending on the range of the input value. For
cppc_cpufreq_khz_to_perf():
- (NOMINAL_PERF / NOMINAL_FREQ) or
- (LOWEST_PERF / LOWEST_FREQ)
and for cppc_cpufreq_perf_to_khz():
- (NOMINAL_FREQ / NOMINAL_PERF) or
- ((NOMINAL_PERF - LOWEST_FREQ) / (NOMINAL_PERF - LOWEST_PERF))

This means:
1- the functions are not inverse for some values:
   (perf_to_khz(khz_to_perf(x)) != x)
2- cppc_cpufreq_perf_to_khz(LOWEST_PERF) can sometimes give
   a different value from LOWEST_FREQ due to integer approximation
3- it is implied that performance and frequency are proportional
   (NOMINAL_FREQ / NOMINAL_PERF) == (LOWEST_PERF / LOWEST_FREQ)

This patch changes the conversion functions to an affine function.
This fixes the 3 points above.

Suggested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-04-13 20:59:11 +02:00
2022-04-08 14:23:55 +02:00
2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
2022-04-08 14:24:18 +02:00

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.
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