Re: [PATCH v3] cpupower: fix TSC MHz calculation

[Shuah <shuah@kernel.org>]

On 12/11/24 19:14, He Rongguang wrote:
> Commit 'cpupower: Make TSC read per CPU for Mperf monitor' (c2adb1877b7)
> changes TSC counter reads per cpu, but left time diff global (from start
> of all cpus to end of all cpus), thus diff(time) is too large for a
> cpu's tsc counting, resulting in far less than acutal TSC_Mhz and thus
> `cpupower monitor` showing far less than actual cpu realtime frequency.
> 
> /proc/cpuinfo shows frequency:
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep -e 'processor' -e 'MHz'
> ...
> processor : 171
> cpu MHz   : 4108.498
> ...
> 
> before fix (System 100% busy):
>      | Mperf              || Idle_Stats
>   CPU| C0   | Cx   | Freq  || POLL | C1   | C2
>   171|  0.77| 99.23|  2279||  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
> 
> after fix (System 100% busy):
>      | Mperf              || Idle_Stats
>   CPU| C0   | Cx   | Freq  || POLL | C1   | C2
>   171|  0.46| 99.54|  4095||  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
> 
> Fixes: c2adb1877b76 ("cpupower: Make TSC read per CPU for Mperf monitor")
> Signed-off-by: He Rongguang <herongguang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---

Applied to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux.git/log/?h=cpupower
to be included in my next pull request to Rafael.

thanks,
-- Shuah