cpufreq: ACPI: Extend frequency tables to cover boost frequencies
A severe performance regression on AMD EPYC processors when using the schedutil scaling governor was discovered by Phoronix.com and attributed to the following commits: 41ea6672 ("x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD systems") 976df7e5 ("x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC") The source of the problem is that the maximum performance level taken for computing the arch_max_freq_ratio value used in the x86 scale- invariance code is higher than the one corresponding to the cpuinfo.max_freq value coming from the acpi_cpufreq driver. This effectively causes the scale-invariant utilization to fall below 100% even if the CPU runs at cpuinfo.max_freq or slightly faster, so the schedutil governor selects a frequency below cpuinfo.max_freq then. That frequency corresponds to a frequency table entry below the maximum performance level necessary to get to the "boost" range of CPU frequencies. However, if the cpuinfo.max_freq value coming from acpi_cpufreq was higher, the schedutil governor would select higher frequencies which in turn would allow acpi_cpufreq to set more adequate performance levels and to get to the "boost" range of CPU frequencies more often. This issue affects any systems where acpi_cpufreq is used and the "boost" (or "turbo") frequencies are enabled, not just AMD EPYC. Moreover, commit db865272 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as default with intel_pstate") from the 5.10 development cycle made it extremely easy to default to schedutil even if the preferred driver is acpi_cpufreq as long as intel_pstate is built too, because the mere presence of the latter effectively removes the ondemand governor from the defaults. Distro kernels are likely to include both intel_pstate and acpi_cpufreq on x86, so their users who cannot use intel_pstate or choose to use acpi_cpufreq may easily be affectecd by this issue. To address this issue, extend the frequency table constructed by acpi_cpufreq for each CPU to cover the entire range of available frequencies (including the "boost" ones) if CPPC is available and indicates that "boost" (or "turbo") frequencies are enabled. That causes cpuinfo.max_freq to become the maximum "boost" frequency of the given CPU (instead of the maximum frequency returned by the ACPI _PSS object that corresponds to the "nominal" performance level). Fixes: 41ea6672 ("x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD systems") Fixes: 976df7e5 ("x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC") Fixes: db865272 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as default with intel_pstate") Link: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux511-amd-schedutil&num=1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20210203135321.12253-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz/Reported-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@phoronix.com> Diagnosed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Tested-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz> Tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@phoronix.com>
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