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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/cppc_sysfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/cppc_sysfs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a4b99afbe331 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/cppc_sysfs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================================================== +Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) +================================================== + +CPPC +==== + +CPPC defined in the ACPI spec describes a mechanism for the OS to manage the +performance of a logical processor on a contigious and abstract performance +scale. CPPC exposes a set of registers to describe abstract performance scale, +to request performance levels and to measure per-cpu delivered performance. + +For more details on CPPC please refer to the ACPI specification at: + +http://uefi.org/specifications + +Some of the CPPC registers are exposed via sysfs under:: + + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/acpi_cppc/ + +for each cpu X:: + + $ ls -lR /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/acpi_cppc/ + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/acpi_cppc/: + total 0 + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 feedback_ctrs + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 highest_perf + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 lowest_freq + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 lowest_nonlinear_perf + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 lowest_perf + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 nominal_freq + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 nominal_perf + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 reference_perf + -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 wraparound_time + +* highest_perf : Highest performance of this processor (abstract scale). +* nominal_perf : Highest sustained performance of this processor + (abstract scale). +* lowest_nonlinear_perf : Lowest performance of this processor with nonlinear + power savings (abstract scale). +* lowest_perf : Lowest performance of this processor (abstract scale). + +* lowest_freq : CPU frequency corresponding to lowest_perf (in MHz). +* nominal_freq : CPU frequency corresponding to nominal_perf (in MHz). + The above frequencies should only be used to report processor performance in + freqency instead of abstract scale. These values should not be used for any + functional decisions. + +* feedback_ctrs : Includes both Reference and delivered performance counter. + Reference counter ticks up proportional to processor's reference performance. + Delivered counter ticks up proportional to processor's delivered performance. +* wraparound_time: Minimum time for the feedback counters to wraparound + (seconds). +* reference_perf : Performance level at which reference performance counter + accumulates (abstract scale). + + +Computing Average Delivered Performance +======================================= + +Below describes the steps to compute the average performance delivered by +taking two different snapshots of feedback counters at time T1 and T2. + + T1: Read feedback_ctrs as fbc_t1 + Wait or run some workload + + T2: Read feedback_ctrs as fbc_t2 + +:: + + delivered_counter_delta = fbc_t2[del] - fbc_t1[del] + reference_counter_delta = fbc_t2[ref] - fbc_t1[ref] + + delivered_perf = (refernce_perf x delivered_counter_delta) / reference_counter_delta |