cpupower: Provide -c param for cpupower monitor to schedule process on all cores

If an MSR based monitor is run in parallel this is not needed. This is the
default case on all/most Intel machines.

But when only sysfs info is read via cpupower monitor -m Idle_Stats (typically
the case for non root users) or when other monitors are PCI based (AMD),
Idle_Stats, read from sysfs can be totally bogus:

cpupower monitor -m Idle_Stats
PKG |CORE|CPU | POLL | C1-N | C3-N | C6-N
   0|   0|   0|  0.00|  0.00|  0.24| 99.81
   0|   0|  32|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 100.7
...
   0|  17|  20|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 173.1
   0|  17|  52|  0.00|  0.00|  0.07| 173.0
   0|  18|  68|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
   0|  18|  76|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
...

With the -c option all cores are woken up and the kernel
did update cpuidle statistics before reading out sysfs.
This causes some overhead. Therefore avoid if possible, use
if needed:

cpupower monitor -c -m Idle_Stats
PKG |CORE|CPU | POLL | C1-N | C3-N | C6-N
   0|   0|   0|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 100.2
   0|   0|  32|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 100.2
...
   0|   8|   8|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 99.82
   0|   8|  40|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 99.81
   0|   9|  24|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 100.3
   0|   9|  56|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 100.2
   0|  16|   4|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 99.75
   0|  16|  36|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 99.38
...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1 b/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1
index 1141c20..e01c35d 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ cpupower\-monitor \- Report processor frequency and idle statistics
 .RB "\-l"
 
 .B cpupower monitor
-.RB [ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ]
+.RB [ -c ] [ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ]
 .RB [ "\-i seconds" ]
 .br
 .B cpupower monitor
-.RB [ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ]
+.RB [ -c ][ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ]
 .RB command
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -64,6 +64,17 @@ Only display specific monitors. Use the monitor string(s) provided by \-l option
 Measure intervall.
 .RE
 .PP
+\-c
+.RS 4
+Schedule the process on every core before starting and ending measuring.
+This could be needed for the Idle_Stats monitor when no other MSR based
+monitor (has to be run on the core that is measured) is run in parallel.
+This is to wake up the processors from deeper sleep states and let the
+kernel re
+-account its cpuidle (C-state) information before reading the
+cpuidle timings from sysfs.
+.RE
+.PP
 command
 .RS 4
 Measure idle and frequency characteristics of an arbitrary command/workload.

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/helpers.h b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/helpers.h
index f84985f..aa9e954 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/helpers.h
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/helpers.h
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ struct cpupower_topology {
 
 extern int get_cpu_topology(struct cpupower_topology *cpu_top);
 extern void cpu_topology_release(struct cpupower_topology cpu_top);
+
 /* CPU topology/hierarchy parsing ******************/
 
 /* X86 ONLY ****************************************/

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c
index 7a657f3..c4bae92 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static int mode;
 static int interval = 1;
 static char *show_monitors_param;
 static struct cpupower_topology cpu_top;
+static unsigned int wake_cpus;
 
 /* ToDo: Document this in the manpage */
 static char range_abbr[RANGE_MAX] = { 'T', 'C', 'P', 'M', };
@@ -314,16 +315,28 @@ int fork_it(char **argv)
 int do_interval_measure(int i)
 {
        unsigned int num;
+       int cpu;
+
+       if (wake_cpus)
+               for (cpu = 0; cpu < cpu_count; cpu++)
+                       bind_cpu(cpu);
 
        for (num = 0; num < avail_monitors; num++) {
                dprint("HW C-state residency monitor: %s - States: %d\n",
                       monitors[num]->name, monitors[num]->hw_states_num);
                monitors[num]->start();
        }
+
        sleep(i);
+
+       if (wake_cpus)
+               for (cpu = 0; cpu < cpu_count; cpu++)
+                       bind_cpu(cpu);
+
        for (num = 0; num < avail_monitors; num++)
                monitors[num]->stop();
 
+
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -332,7 +345,7 @@ static void cmdline(int argc, char *argv[])
        int opt;
        progname = basename(argv[0]);
 
-       while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "+li:m:")) != -1) {
+       while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "+lci:m:")) != -1) {
                switch (opt) {
                case 'l':
                        if (mode)
@@ -351,6 +364,9 @@ static void cmdline(int argc, char *argv[])
                        mode = show;
                        show_monitors_param = optarg;
                        break;
+               case 'c':
+                       wake_cpus = 1;
+                       break;
                default:
                        print_wrong_arg_exit();
                }

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.h b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.h
index 9312ee1..9e43f33 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.h
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.h
@@ -65,4 +65,21 @@ extern long long timespec_diff_us(struct timespec start, struct timespec end);
                                "could be inaccurate\n"), mes, ov);             \
 }
 
+
+/* Taken over from x86info project sources  -> return 0 on success */
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+static inline int bind_cpu(int cpu)
+{
+       cpu_set_t set;
+
+       if (sched_getaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(set), &set) == 0) {
+               CPU_ZERO(&set);
+               CPU_SET(cpu, &set);
+               return sched_setaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(set), &set);
+       }
+       return 1;
+}
+
 #endif /* __CPUIDLE_INFO_HW__ */