Re: git: powerd - Initial load monitor and cpu frequency adjustm
:One more thing, if you want to change freq for all cpu domains,
:hw.acpi.cpu.px_global, which sets freq of all cpu domains, could be
:used, in lue of iterating all cpu domains :)
:
:Best Regards,
:sephe
Yah, I saw that, and was tempted to avoid the dom scan. But after
thinking about it for a little bit I decided to set the groundwork
for a more sophisticated handling of the load. Which, p.s. I would
love someone to implement!
Here's what I am thinking. If multiple domains are available we
could add support for a global userland thread scheduler cpu mask that
powerd is able to control. We already have cpu masks via the
usched_set() command, we just don't have a global cpu collapse mask
for use by something like powerd. It would be pretty easy to do.
Then based on the cpu load, where 1.0 == one fully saturated cpu,
we could speed up just N domains based on the load instead of all of
them and restrict user processes to the related cpus for those specific
domains. Once the load climbs to ncpus all the domains would be
throttled up to full and all cpus enabled.
Right now I just turn up or down all the cpus because powerd has no
control over which one(s) get the processes. (also the load
calculation has to be done across all of them for the same reason,
regardless).
It also occurs to me that if we had this feature in powerd we could
make use of the overclocking available on the 6-core cpus (where some
of the cpus can be overclocked if the remaining are idle). In anycase,
something like this is really needed now that AMD has gone to 6-core.
We will probably be seeing 8-core within a year.
-Matt
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