Re: [PATCH v1] Revert "cpufreq: schedutil: Move max CPU capacity to sugov_policy"

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 2:00 AM Sam Wu <wusamuel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:35 AM Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Which mainline kernel version you use in pixel6?
> I am using kernel version 6.1-rc5.
> >
> > Could you elaborate a bit how is it possible?
> > Do you have the sg_policy setup properly (and at right time)?
> > Do you have the cpu capacity from arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
> > set correctly and at the right time during this cpufreq
> > governor setup?
> >
> > IIRC in Android there is a different code for setting up the
> > cpufreq sched governor clones. In mainline we don't have to do
> > those tricks, so this might be the main difference.
> This behavior is seen on the mainline kernel. There isn't any vendor code
> modifying the behavior, and the schedutil governor is being used.
> >
> > Could you trace the value that is read from
> > arch_scale_cpu_capacity() and share it with us?
> > I suspect this value changes in time in your kernel.
> There's an additional CPU capacity normalization step during
> init_cpu_capacity_callback() that does not happen until all the CPUs come
> online. However, the sugov_start() function can be called for a subset of
> CPUs before all the CPUs are brought up and before the normalization of
> the CPU capacity values, so there could be a stale value stored
> in sugov_policy.max field.

OK, the revert has been applied as 6.1-rc material, thanks!