[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] libs/power: add p-state driver compatibility

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Thu Dec 20 10:25:18 CET 2018


On 19-Dec-18 8:31 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 19/12/2018 10:09, Hunt, David:
>> On 19/12/2018 3:18 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 14/12/2018 14:11, Liang Ma:
>>>> Previously, in order to use the power library, it was necessary
>>>> for the user to disable the intel_pstate driver by adding
>>>> “intel_pstate=disable” to the kernel command line for the system,
>>>> which causes the acpi_cpufreq driver to be loaded in its place.
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds the ability for the power library use the intel-pstate
>>>> driver.
>>>>
>>>> It adds a new suite of functions behind the current power library API,
>>>> and will seamlessly set up the user facing API function pointers to
>>>> the relevant functions depending on whether the system is running with
>>>> acpi_cpufreq kernel driver, intel_pstate kernel driver or in a guest,
>>>> using kvm. The library API and ABI is unchanged.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Liang Ma <liang.j.ma at intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Please write a changelog when sending a new version.
>>>
>>> Dave, any comment on this patch?
>>
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> Acked-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
>>
>>
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/lib/librte_power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,770 @@
>>>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>>>> + * Copyright(c) 2018-2018 Intel Corporation
>>> Something wrong here :)
>>
>> Yes, should simply be "Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation"
> 
> 
> There is also a compilation error with meson:
> 
> lib/librte_power/rte_power_empty_poll.h:20:10: fatal error:
> 	rte_timer.h: No such file or directory

That's an EAL header, and this file was not modified or referenced in 
this commit. This sounds like a pre-existing problem (with meson 
build-system?), not related to the patchset.

Is this library not built by default by our patch compilation CI?

> 
> Clearly, some quality checks are missing.
> 
> I'm afraid we won't have any patch for power library in 19.02.
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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