From: Rafael J. Wysocki Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:07:12 +0000 (+0100) Subject: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Make it possible to avoid enabling CAS X-Git-Tag: v6.15-rc1~191^2~4^2~1^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7802fce7dc18394d041a1310fe4ad76120e08145;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git cpufreq: intel_pstate: Make it possible to avoid enabling CAS Capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) is enabled by default by intel_pstate on hybrid systems without SMT, but in some usage scenarios it may be more attractive to place tasks for maximum CPU performance regardless of the extra cost in terms of energy, which is the case on such systems when CAS is not enabled, so introduce a command line option to forbid intel_pstate to enable CAS. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by:Srinivas Pandruvada Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2781262.mvXUDI8C0e@rjwysocki.net --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fb8752b42ec85..77e671e559938 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2316,6 +2316,9 @@ per_cpu_perf_limits Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using cpufreq sysfs interface + no_cas + Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on + hybrid systems intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst index bf13ad25a32f7..78fc83ed2a7ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst @@ -696,6 +696,9 @@ of them have to be prepended with the ``intel_pstate=`` prefix. Use per-logical-CPU P-State limits (see `Coordination of P-state Limits`_ for details). +``no_cas`` + Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) which is enabled by + default on hybrid systems. Diagnostics and Tuning ====================== diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c index 9c4cc01fd51aa..bc31e9b9b6603 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c @@ -936,6 +936,8 @@ static struct freq_attr *hwp_cpufreq_attrs[] = { NULL, }; +static bool no_cas __ro_after_init; + static struct cpudata *hybrid_max_perf_cpu __read_mostly; /* * Protects hybrid_max_perf_cpu, the capacity_perf fields in struct cpudata, @@ -1041,6 +1043,10 @@ static void hybrid_refresh_cpu_capacity_scaling(void) static void hybrid_init_cpu_capacity_scaling(bool refresh) { + /* Bail out if enabling capacity-aware scheduling is prohibited. */ + if (no_cas) + return; + /* * If hybrid_max_perf_cpu is set at this point, the hybrid CPU capacity * scaling has been enabled already and the driver is just changing the @@ -3835,6 +3841,9 @@ static int __init intel_pstate_setup(char *str) if (!strcmp(str, "no_hwp")) no_hwp = 1; + if (!strcmp(str, "no_cas")) + no_cas = true; + if (!strcmp(str, "force")) force_load = 1; if (!strcmp(str, "hwp_only"))