Janakarajan Natarajan 7adafe541f cpupower: mperf_monitor: Introduce per_cpu_schedule flag
The per_cpu_schedule flag is used to move the cpupower process to the cpu
on which we are looking to read the APERF/MPERF registers.

This prevents IPIs from being generated by read_msr()s as we are already
on the cpu of interest.

Ex: If cpupower is running on CPU 0 and we execute

    read_msr(20, MSR_APERF, val) then,
    read_msr(20, MSR_MPERF, val)

    the msr module will generate an IPI from CPU 0 to CPU 20 to query
    for the MSR_APERF and then the MSR_MPERF in separate IPIs.

This delay, caused by IPI latency, between reading the APERF and MPERF
registers may cause both of them to go out of sync.

The use of the per_cpu_schedule flag reduces the probability of this
from happening. It comes at the cost of a negligible increase in cpu
consumption caused by the migration of cpupower across each of the
cpus of the system.

Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-11-05 17:22:46 -07:00
..
2019-08-29 10:18:52 -06:00

The cpupower package consists of the following elements:

requirements
------------

On x86 pciutils is needed at runtime (-lpci).
For compilation pciutils-devel (pci/pci.h) and a gcc version
providing cpuid.h is needed.
For both it's not explicitly checked for (yet).


libcpupower
----------

"libcpupower" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace
tools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This
allows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of
the interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc
interfaces [depending on configuration, see below].


compilation and installation
----------------------------

make
su
make install

should suffice on most systems. It builds libcpupower to put in
/usr/lib; cpupower, cpufreq-bench_plot.sh to put in /usr/bin; and
cpufreq-bench to put in /usr/sbin. If you want to set up the paths
differently and/or want to configure the package to your specific
needs, you need to open "Makefile" with an editor of your choice and
edit the block marked CONFIGURATION.


THANKS
------
Many thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and
libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpupower;
to Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his
powernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file;
and to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of 
cpupower.


        Dominik Brodowski