[PATCH] arm64: dts: meson: Add capacity-dmips-mhz attributes to GXM

From: Christian Hewitt
Date: Tue Nov 24 2020 - 07:18:09 EST


GXM (S912) is a big-little design with CPUs 0-3 clocked at 1.5GHz
and CPUs 4-7 at 1.0GHz. Adding capacity-dmips-mhz attributes allows
the scheduler to factor the different clock speeds into capacity
calculations and prefer the higher-clocked cluster to improve
overall performance.

This was inspired by the similar change for G12B [0] boards. The
diference here is that all cores are A53's so the same dmips-mhz
value is used.

VIM2:~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
1512000
1512000
1512000
1512000
1000000
1000000
1000000
1000000

before:

VIM2:~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpu_capacity
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024

after:

VIM2:~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpu_capacity
1024
1024
1024
1024
677
677
677
677

The after value matches my table-napkin calculation:

(1000000 / 1512000 = 0.661) * 1024 = 677

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6eeaf4d2452ec8b1ece58776812140734fc2e088

Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxm.dtsi | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxm.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxm.dtsi
index fe4145112295..411cc312fc62 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxm.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxm.dtsi
@@ -42,11 +42,28 @@
};
};

+ cpu0: cpu@0 {
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
+ };
+
+ cpu1: cpu@1 {
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
+ };
+
+ cpu2: cpu@2 {
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
+ };
+
+ cpu3: cpu@3 {
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
+ };
+
cpu4: cpu@100 {
device_type = "cpu";
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
reg = <0x0 0x100>;
enable-method = "psci";
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
next-level-cache = <&l2>;
clocks = <&scpi_dvfs 1>;
#cooling-cells = <2>;
@@ -57,6 +74,7 @@
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
reg = <0x0 0x101>;
enable-method = "psci";
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
next-level-cache = <&l2>;
clocks = <&scpi_dvfs 1>;
#cooling-cells = <2>;
@@ -67,6 +85,7 @@
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
reg = <0x0 0x102>;
enable-method = "psci";
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
next-level-cache = <&l2>;
clocks = <&scpi_dvfs 1>;
#cooling-cells = <2>;
@@ -77,6 +96,7 @@
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
reg = <0x0 0x103>;
enable-method = "psci";
+ capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
next-level-cache = <&l2>;
clocks = <&scpi_dvfs 1>;
#cooling-cells = <2>;
--
2.17.1