cpufreq: intel_pstate: Account for non C0 time
The current function to calculate cpu utilization uses the average P-state ratio (APerf/Mperf) scaled by the ratio of the current P-state to the max available non-turbo one. This leads to an overestimation of utilization which causes higher-performance P-states to be selected more often and that leads to increased energy consumption. This is a problem for low-power systems, so it is better to use a different utilization calculation algorithm for them. Namely, the Percent Busy value (or load) can be estimated as the ratio of the MPERF counter that runs at a constant rate only during active periods (C0) to the time stamp counter (TSC) that also runs (at the same rate) during idle. That is: Percent Busy = 100 * (delta_mperf / delta_tsc) Use this algorithm for platforms with SoCs based on the Airmont and Silvermont Atom cores. Signed-off-by: Philippe Longepe <philippe.longepe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Gasparini <stephane.gasparini@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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