Re: [PATCH] x86: use cpufreq_quick_get() for /proc/cpuinfo "cpu MHz" again

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:06:12 AM CET Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Current head + Raphaels patch:
> >>
> >> real    0m0.029s
> >> user    0m0.000s
> >> sys     0m0.010s
> >>
> >> So that patch is actually slower.
> >
> > Oh it definitely is expected to be slower, because it does the IPI to
> > all the cores and actually gets their frequency right.
> >
> > It was the old one that we had to revert (because it did so
> > sequentially) that was really bad, and took something like 2+ seconds
> > on Ingo's 160-core thing, iirc.
> 
> Looked it up. Ingo's machine "only" had 120 cores, and he said
> 
>     fomalhaut:~> time cat /proc/cpuinfo  >/dev/null
>     real    0m2.689s
> 
> for the bad serial case, so yeah, it looks "a bit" better than it was ;)

OK, so may I queue it up?

I don't think I can get that to work substantially faster anyway ...

Thanks,
Rafael