intel_pstate: Clean up get_target_pstate_use_performance()
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 11 May 2016 17:11:26 +0000 (19:11 +0200)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 11 May 2016 20:58:38 +0000 (22:58 +0200)
The comments and the core_busy variable name in
get_target_pstate_use_performance() are totally confusing,
so modify them to reflect what's going on.

The results of the computations should be the same as before.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c

index ff5c591..b76a98d 100644 (file)
@@ -1259,43 +1259,38 @@ static inline int32_t get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load(struct cpudata *cpu)
 
 static inline int32_t get_target_pstate_use_performance(struct cpudata *cpu)
 {
-       int32_t core_busy, max_pstate, current_pstate, sample_ratio;
+       int32_t perf_scaled, max_pstate, current_pstate, sample_ratio;
        u64 duration_ns;
 
        /*
-        * core_busy is the ratio of actual performance to max
-        * max_pstate is the max non turbo pstate available
-        * current_pstate was the pstate that was requested during
-        *      the last sample period.
-        *
-        * We normalize core_busy, which was our actual percent
-        * performance to what we requested during the last sample
-        * period. The result will be a percentage of busy at a
-        * specified pstate.
+        * perf_scaled is the average performance during the last sampling
+        * period scaled by the ratio of the maximum P-state to the P-state
+        * requested last time (in percent).  That measures the system's
+        * response to the previous P-state selection.
         */
        max_pstate = cpu->pstate.max_pstate_physical;
        current_pstate = cpu->pstate.current_pstate;
-       core_busy = mul_ext_fp(cpu->sample.core_avg_perf,
+       perf_scaled = mul_ext_fp(cpu->sample.core_avg_perf,
                               div_fp(100 * max_pstate, current_pstate));
 
        /*
         * Since our utilization update callback will not run unless we are
         * in C0, check if the actual elapsed time is significantly greater (3x)
         * than our sample interval.  If it is, then we were idle for a long
-        * enough period of time to adjust our busyness.
+        * enough period of time to adjust our performance metric.
         */
        duration_ns = cpu->sample.time - cpu->last_sample_time;
        if ((s64)duration_ns > pid_params.sample_rate_ns * 3) {
                sample_ratio = div_fp(pid_params.sample_rate_ns, duration_ns);
-               core_busy = mul_fp(core_busy, sample_ratio);
+               perf_scaled = mul_fp(perf_scaled, sample_ratio);
        } else {
                sample_ratio = div_fp(100 * cpu->sample.mperf, cpu->sample.tsc);
                if (sample_ratio < int_tofp(1))
-                       core_busy = 0;
+                       perf_scaled = 0;
        }
 
-       cpu->sample.busy_scaled = core_busy;
-       return cpu->pstate.current_pstate - pid_calc(&cpu->pid, core_busy);
+       cpu->sample.busy_scaled = perf_scaled;
+       return cpu->pstate.current_pstate - pid_calc(&cpu->pid, perf_scaled);
 }
 
 static inline void intel_pstate_update_pstate(struct cpudata *cpu, int pstate)