Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] thermal: cpufreq_cooling: Update also offline CPUs per-cpu thermal_pressure
From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Jun 14 2021 - 06:13:22 EST
On 10-06-21, 16:03, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> The thermal pressure signal gives information to the scheduler about
> reduced CPU capacity due to thermal. It is based on a value stored in a
> per-cpu 'thermal_pressure' variable. The online CPUs will get the new
> value there, while the offline won't. Unfortunately, when the CPU is back
> online, the value read from per-cpu variable might be wrong (stale data).
> This might affect the scheduler decisions, since it sees the CPU capacity
> differently than what is actually available.
>
> Fix it by making sure that all online+offline CPUs would get the proper
> value in their per-cpu variable when thermal framework sets capping.
>
> Fixes: f12e4f66ab6a3 ("thermal/cpu-cooling: Update thermal pressure in case of a maximum frequency capping")
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
> index eeb4e4b76c0b..43b1ae8a7789 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
> @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ static int cpufreq_set_cur_state(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
> ret = freq_qos_update_request(&cpufreq_cdev->qos_req, frequency);
> if (ret >= 0) {
> cpufreq_cdev->cpufreq_state = state;
> - cpus = cpufreq_cdev->policy->cpus;
> + cpus = cpufreq_cdev->policy->related_cpus;
> max_capacity = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpumask_first(cpus));
> capacity = frequency * max_capacity;
> capacity /= cpufreq_cdev->policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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viresh