Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] New thermal interface allowing IPA to get max power

[Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>]

Daniel, Chanwoo

Gentle ping. Have you have a chance to check these patches?

On 1/26/21 10:39 AM, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch set tries to add the missing feature in the Intelligent Power
> Allocation (IPA) governor which is: frequency limit set by user space.
> User can set max allowed frequency for a given device which has impact on
> max allowed power. In current design there is no mechanism to figure this
> out. IPA must know the maximum allowed power for every device. It is then
> used for proper power split and divvy-up. When the user limit for max
> frequency is not know, IPA assumes it is the highest possible frequency.
> It causes wrong power split across the devices.
> 
> This new mechanism provides the max allowed frequency to the thermal
> framework and then max allowed power to the IPA.
> The implementation is done in this way because currently there is no way
> to retrieve the limits from the PM QoS, without uncapping the local
> thermal limit and reading the next value. It would be a heavy way of
> doing these things, since it should be done every polling time (e.g. 50ms).
> Also, the value stored in PM QoS can be different than the real OPP 'rate'
> so still would need conversion into proper OPP for comparison with EM.
> Furthermore, uncapping the device in thermal just to check the user freq
> limit is not the safest way.
> Thus, this simple implementation moves the calculation of the proper
> frequency to the sysfs write code, since it's called less often. The value
> is then used as-is in the thermal framework without any hassle.
> 
> As it's a RFC, it still misses the cpufreq sysfs implementation, but would
> be addressed if all agree.
> 
> Regards,
> Lukasz Luba
> 
> Lukasz Luba (3):
>    PM /devfreq: add user frequency limits into devfreq struct
>    thermal: devfreq_cooling: add new callback to get user limit for min
>      state
>    thermal: power_allocator: get proper max power limited by user
> 
>   drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c             | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c     | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/thermal/gov_power_allocator.c | 17 +++++++++--
>   include/linux/devfreq.h               |  4 +++
>   include/linux/thermal.h               |  1 +
>   5 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>