Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] Add support for AMD hardware feedback interface

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 08:29:47PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 10/10/2024 19:54, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 02:36:52PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > The AMD Heterogeneous core design and Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI)
> > > provide behavioral classification and a dynamically updated ranking table
> > > for the scheduler to use when choosing cores for tasks.
> > > 
> > > Threads are classified during runtime into enumerated classes.
> > > Currently, the driver supports 3 classes (0 through 2). These classes
> > > represent thread performance/power characteristics that may benefit from
> > > special scheduling behaviors. The real-time thread classification is
> > > consumed by the operating system and is used to inform the scheduler of
> > > where the thread should be placed for optimal performance or energy efficiency.
> > > 
> > > The thread classification helps to select CPU from a ranking table that describes
> > > an efficiency and performance ranking for each classification from two dimensions.
> > > 
> > > The ranking data provided by the ranking table are numbers ranging from 0 to 255,
> > > where a higher performance value indicates higher performance capability and a higher
> > > efficiency value indicates greater efficiency. All the CPU cores are ranked into
> > > different class IDs. Within each class ranking, the cores may have different ranking
> > > values. Therefore, picking from each classification ID will later allow the scheduler
> > > to select the best core while threads are classified into the specified workload class.
> > > 
> > > This series was originally submitted by Perry Yuan [1] but he is now doing a different
> > > role and he asked me to take over.
> > 
> > Sorry but can you specify the base commit/tree of this series? I can't apply
> > it on top of current platform-drivers-x86.git, though.
> > 
> > Confused...
> > 
> 
> Sorry about that.  As it crosses a few subsystems it will require some
> coordination to properly land once it has review comments.
> 
> It's (currently) based off:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux.git/log/?h=linux-next
> 
> commit 57533bc760ae ("cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix non kerneldoc comment")

Series successfully applied for review, thanks!

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