examples/vm_power: allow managing idle cores

This change is required to allow the branch ratio algorithm to
power manage cores with no workload running on them. This is
useful both when idle cores d

examples/vm_power: allow managing idle cores

This change is required to allow the branch ratio algorithm to
power manage cores with no workload running on them. This is
useful both when idle cores don't use C-states and for a number of
hyperthreading scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Rory Sexton <rory.sexton@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>

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examples/vm_power: make branch ratio threshold per core

This modification allows for the branch ratio threshold to be set
per core rather than system wide. This gives greater flexibility to
the bran

examples/vm_power: make branch ratio threshold per core

This modification allows for the branch ratio threshold to be set
per core rather than system wide. This gives greater flexibility to
the branch ratio monitoring allowing it to manage different
workloads with different characteristics on the same system.

Signed-off-by: Rory Sexton <rory.sexton@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>

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examples/vm_power: fix OOB frequency oscillations

The branch ratio algorithm in the vm_power_manager sample application
can be very sensitive at patricular loads in a workload, causing
oscillations

examples/vm_power: fix OOB frequency oscillations

The branch ratio algorithm in the vm_power_manager sample application
can be very sensitive at patricular loads in a workload, causing
oscillations between min and max frequency. For example, if a
workload is at 50%, scaling up may change the ratio
enough that it immediately thinks it needs to scale down again.

This patch introduces a sliding window recording the scale up/down
direction for the last 32 samples, and scales up if any samples indicate
we should scale up, otherwise scale down. Each core has it's own window.

Fixes: 4b1a631b8a8a ("examples/vm_power: add oob monitoring functions")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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examples/power: fix overflowed value

Fix the data type of last_branches, last_branch_misses
from uint32_t to uint64_t, and for hits_diff, miss_diff
from int to int64_t respectively to fix possible
o

examples/power: fix overflowed value

Fix the data type of last_branches, last_branch_misses
from uint32_t to uint64_t, and for hits_diff, miss_diff
from int to int64_t respectively to fix possible
overflow or truncation.

Coverity issue: 337677
Fixes: 4b1a631b8a ("examples/vm_power: add oob monitoring functions")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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examples/vm_power: make branch ratio configurable

For different workloads and poll loops, the theshold
may be different for when you want to scale up and down.

This patch allows changing of the def

examples/vm_power: make branch ratio configurable

For different workloads and poll loops, the theshold
may be different for when you want to scale up and down.

This patch allows changing of the default branch ratio
by using the -b command line argument (or --branch-ratio=)

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>

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examples/vm_power: add oob monitoring functions

This patch introduces the out-of-band (oob) core monitoring
functions.

The functions are similar to the channel manager functions.
There are function

examples/vm_power: add oob monitoring functions

This patch introduces the out-of-band (oob) core monitoring
functions.

The functions are similar to the channel manager functions.
There are function to add and remove cores from the
list of cores being monitored. There is a function to initialise
the monitor setup, run the monitor thread, and exit the monitor.

The monitor thread runs in it's own lcore, and is separate
functionality to the channel monitor which is epoll based.
THis thread is timer based. It loops through all monitored cores,
calculates the branch ratio, scales up or down the core, then
sleeps for an interval (~250 uS).

The method it uses to read the branch counters is a pread on the
/dev/cpu/x/msr file, so the 'msr' kernel module needs to be loaded.
Also, since the msr.h file has been made unavailable in recent
kernels, we have #defines for the relevant MSRs included in the
code.

The makefile has a switch for x86 and non-x86 platforms,
and compiles stub function for non-x86 platforms.

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>

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