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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki
<rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On 11/9/2017 11:38 AM, WANG Chao wrote:
>>
>> Commit 941f5f0f6ef5 (x86: CPU: Fix up "cpu MHz" in /proc/cpuinfo) caused
>> a serious performance issue when reading from /proc/cpuinfo on system
>> with aperfmperf.
>>
>> For each cpu, arch_freq_get_on_cpu() sleeps 20ms to get its frequency.
>> On a system with 64 cpus, it takes 1.5s to finish running `cat
>> /proc/cpuinfo`, while it previously was done in 15ms.
>
> Honestly, I'm not sure what to do to address this ATM.
>
> The last requested frequency is only available in the non-HWP case, so it
> cannot be used universally.

OK, here's an idea.

c_start() can run aperfmperf_snapshot_khz() on all CPUs upfront (say
in parallel), then wait for a while (say 5 ms; the current 20 ms wait
is overkill) and then aperfmperf_snapshot_khz() can be run once on
each CPU in show_cpuinfo() without taking the "stale cache" threshold
into account.

I'm going to try that and see how far I can get with it.

Thanks,
Rafael