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6 - Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
7 - Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
12 - Goals and Objectives
15 - Idle Injection
16 - Calibration
19 - Effectiveness and Limitations
20 - Power vs Performance
21 - Scalability
22 - Calibration
23 - Comparison with Alternative Techniques
26 - Generic Thermal Layer (sysfs)
27 - Kernel APIs (TBD)
34 Consider the situation where a system’s power consumption must be
40 Currently, P-states, T-states (clock modulation), and CPU offlining
43 On Intel CPUs, C-states provide effective power reduction, but so far
47 is to achieve forced and controllable C-state residency.
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60 On modern Intel processors (Nehalem or later), package level C-state
70 If the kernel can also inject idle time to the system, then a
71 closed-loop control system can be established that manages package
72 level C-state. The intel_powerclamp driver is conceived as such a
73 control system, where the target set point is a user-selected idle
75 between the actual package level C-state residency ratio and the target idle
82 clamping actions of controlled duty ratio and duration. Each per-CPU
90 scheme to work for both preemptible and non-preemptible kernels.
101 on large scale systems (Westmere system with 80 processors).
120 control parameters. This CPU is referred to as the controlling CPU in
123 hot-plug.
125 In terms of dynamics of the idle control system, package level idle
126 time is considered largely as a non-causal system where its behavior
133 When used in a causal control system, such as a temperature control,
136 PID-based thermal controller can use the powerclamp driver to
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146 also true for the ability of a system to enter package level C-states.
159 This is to offset the error occurring when the system can
169 progress and results, such as on a Westmere system::
218 non-intrusive to the scheduler or the IRQ core code.
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223 Per-CPU kernel threads are started/stopped upon receiving
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239 effectiveness. The extreme case would be doing a ping -f to generated
246 When control parameters change at runtime by the controlling CPU, it
249 thus not able to enter package C- states at the expected ratio. But
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257 Ivy Bridge system and the 80P Westmere server under 50% idle ratio.
263 On the IVB 8P system, compared to an offline CPU, powerclamp can
284 cur_state returns value -1 instead of 0 which is to avoid confusing
289 - To inject 25% idle time::
291 $ sudo sh -c "echo 25 > /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device80/cur_state
293 If the system is not busy and has more than 25% idle time already,
297 If the system is busy (spin test below) and has less than 25% natural
302 In this example, 24.1% idle is shown. This helps the system admin or
313 3341 root -51 0 0 0 0 D 25 0.0 0:01.62 kidle_inject/0
314 3344 root -51 0 0 0 0 D 25 0.0 0:01.60 kidle_inject/3
315 3342 root -51 0 0 0 0 D 25 0.0 0:01.61 kidle_inject/1
316 3343 root -51 0 0 0 0 D 25 0.0 0:01.60 kidle_inject/2
323 control CPU temperature effectively, when no other thermal influence
334 CPU system the full mask is:
337 The rightmost mask is for CPU 0-32.
345 the system.