This governor is designed for latency-sensitive workloads, such as
interactive user interfaces. The interactive governor aims to be
significantly more responsive to ramp CPU quickly up when CPU-intensive
activity begins.
Existing governors sample CPU load at a particular rate, typically
every X ms. This can lead to under-powering UI threads for the period of
time during which the user begins interacting with a previously-idle system
until the next sample period happens.
The 'interactive' governor uses a different approach. Instead of sampling
the CPU at a specified rate, the governor will check whether to scale the
CPU frequency up soon after coming out of idle. When the CPU comes out of
idle, a timer is configured to fire within 1-2 ticks. If the CPU is very
busy from exiting idle to when the timer fires then we assume the CPU is
underpowered and ramp to MAX speed.
If the CPU was not sufficiently busy to immediately ramp to MAX speed, then
the governor evaluates the CPU load since the last speed adjustment,
choosing the highest value between that longer-term load or the short-term
load since idle exit to determine the CPU speed to ramp to.
A realtime thread is used for scaling up, giving the remaining tasks the
CPU performance benefit, unlike existing governors which are more likely to
schedule rampup work to occur after your performance starved tasks have
completed.
The tuneables for this governor are:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/interactive/min_sample_time:
The minimum amount of time to spend at the current frequency before
ramping down. This is to ensure that the governor has seen enough
historic CPU load data to determine the appropriate workload.
Default is 80000 uS.
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/interactive/go_maxspeed_load
The CPU load at which to ramp to max speed. Default is 85.
Change-Id: Ib2b362607c62f7c56d35f44a9ef3280f98c17585
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Bug: 3152864
Pull cpufreq updates for 3.4 from Dave Jones: new drivers and some fixes.
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.
EXYNOS5250: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS5250
EXYNOS4X12: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS4X12
[CPUFREQ] CPUfreq ondemand: update sampling rate without waiting for next sampling
[CPUFREQ] Add S3C2416/S3C2450 cpufreq driver
[CPUFREQ] Fix exposure of ARM_EXYNOS4210_CPUFREQ
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS4210: update the name of EXYNOS clock register
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: Initialize locking_frequency with initial frequency
[CPUFREQ] s3c64xx: Fix mis-cherry pick of VDDINT
Fix up trivial conflicts in Kconfig and Makefile due to just changes
next to each other (OMAP2PLUS changes vs some new EXYNOS cpufreq
drivers).
This patch adds support cpufreq for EXYNOS5250 SoC. Basically,
the exynos-cpufreq.c is used commonly and exynos5250-cpufreq.c
is used for EXYNOS5250(two Cortex-A15 cores) SoC.
Signed-off-by: Jaecheol Lee <jc.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This patch adds support cpufreq for EXYNOS4X12 SoCs. Basically,
the exynos-cpufreq.c is used commonly and exynos4x12-cpufreq.c
is used for EXYNOS4212(two Cortex-A9 cores) and EXYNOS4412(four
Cortex-A9 cores) SoCs.
Signed-off-by: Jaecheol Lee <jc.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The S3C2416/S3C2450 SoCs support two sources for the armclk.
The first source is the so called armdiv which divides the msysclk down
to provide necessary cpu rates. In this mode the core voltage must be
always at 1.3V. The frequency from the armdiv is not allowed to be
lower than the hclk frequency.
In the second mode the armclk can be sourced directly from the hclk in
the so called "dynamic voltags scaling" (dvs) mode. Here the armdiv
isn't used at all. Also in this mode the core voltage may be lowered.
Existing hardware and tests with it suggest 1.0V as sufficient.
When changing the clock source to the armdiv from the hclk, the SoC
shows stability issues if the new frequency is higher than the current
hclk frequency. Hence the driver always forces the armdiv to the hclk
frequency before the source change and lets the cpufreq issue another
set_target call for higher frequencies.
To mark the hclk frequency as lower as the corresponding armdiv
frequency it is set 1MHz below the real frequency. This lets the cpufreq
framework change between 133MHz based on hclk and 133MHz based on armdiv
at will.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Tested-by: Andrey Gusakov <dron0gus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The OMAP driver depends on CPUfreq table support for creating a table
of frequencies from the OPP layer. Ensure that it's build to avoid
link-time errors.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[khilman@ti.com: make user-selectable, but default y]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
To support various EXYNOS series SoCs commonly,
added exynos common structure.
exynos-cpufreq.c => EXYNOS series common cpufreq driver
exynos4210-cpufreq.c => EXYNOS4210 support cpufreq driver
Signed-off-by: Jaecheol Lee <jc.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Move OMAP cpufreq driver from arch/arm/mach-omap2 into
drivers/cpufreq, along with a few cleanups:
- generalize support for better handling of different SoCs in the OMAP
- use OPP layer instead of OMAP clock internals for frequency table init
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
[khilman@ti.com: move to drivers]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (99 commits)
drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c
powerpc/85xx: fix mpic configuration in CAMP mode
powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
powerpc/64: Make server perfmon only built on ppc64 server devices
powerpc/pseries: Fix hvc_vio.c build due to recent changes
powerpc: Exporting boot_cpuid_phys
powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output
hvc_console: Add kdb support
powerpc/pseries: Fix hvterm_raw_get_chars to accept < 16 chars, fixing xmon
powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks
powerpc: Enable lockup and hung task detectors in pseries and ppc64 defeconfigs
powerpc: Add mpt2sas driver to pseries and ppc64 defconfig
powerpc: Disable IRQs off tracer in ppc64 defconfig
powerpc: Sync pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix dropped console output
hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
powerpc/mm: Fix output of total_ram.
powerpc/cpufreq: Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
powerpc: Correct annotations of pmu registration functions
...
Fix up trivial Kconfig/Makefile conflicts in arch/powerpc, drivers, and
drivers/cpufreq
Add simple cpufreq driver for Maple-based boards (ppc970fx evaluation
kit and others). Driver is based on a cpufreq driver for 64-bit powermac
boxes with all pmac-dependant features removed and simple cleanup
applied.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
According to discussion of the ARM arch subsystem migration,
ARM cpufreq drivers move to drivers/cpufreq. So this patch
adds Kconfig.arm for ARM like x86 and adds Samsung S5PV210
and EXYNOS4210 cpufreq driver compile in there.
As a note, otherw will be moved.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This is a straight code motion patch, there are no changes to the driver
itself. The Kconfig is left untouched as the ARM CPUfreq Kconfig is all
in one big block in arm/Kconfig and should be moved en masse rather than
being done piecemeal.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Concluding interface update and movement of the driver by making
the DB8500 cpufreq driver compile in the cpufreq subsystem.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
A new cpufreq module, based on the ondemand one with my additional patches
just posted. This one is more suitable for battery environments where its
probably more appealing to have the cpu freq gracefully increase and decrease
rather than flip between the min and max freq's.
N.B. Bruno Ducrot pointed out that the amd64's "do have unacceptable latency
between min and max freq transition, due to the step-by-step requirements
(200MHz IIRC)"; so AMD64 users would probably benefit from this too.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
