[PATCH v5 0/5] Track and expose idle PURR and SPURR ticks

[Michael Ellerman]

Gautham R Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 03:46:35PM -0700, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
>> On 4/7/20 1:47 AM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote:
>> > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > This is the fifth version of the patches to track and expose idle PURR
>> > and SPURR ticks. These patches are required by tools such as lparstat
>> > to compute system utilization for capacity planning purposes.
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>> > 
>> > Gautham R. Shenoy (5):
>> >   powerpc: Move idle_loop_prolog()/epilog() functions to header file
>> >   powerpc/idle: Store PURR snapshot in a per-cpu global variable
>> >   powerpc/pseries: Account for SPURR ticks on idle CPUs
>> >   powerpc/sysfs: Show idle_purr and idle_spurr for every CPU
>> >   Documentation: Document sysfs interfaces purr, spurr, idle_purr,
>> >     idle_spurr
>> > 
>> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 39 +++++++++
>> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/idle.h                    | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c                        | 82 ++++++++++++++++++-
>> >  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c             |  8 +-
>> >  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c                  | 39 ++-------
>> >  5 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/idle.h
>> > 
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld at linux.ibm.com>
>
> Thanks for reviewing the patches.
>
>> 
>> Any chance this is going to be merged in the near future? There is a patchset to
>> update lparstat in the powerpc-utils package to calculate PURR/SPURR cpu
>> utilization that I would like to merge, but have been holding off to make sure
>> we are synced with this proposed patchset.
>
> Michael, could you please consider this for 5.8 ?

Yes. Has it been tested on KVM at all?

cheers