cpufreq: powernv: Ramp-down global pstate slower than local-pstate

The frequency transition latency from pmin to pmax is observed to be in
few millisecond granurality. And it usually happens to take a performance
penalty during sudden frequency rampup requests.

This patch set solves this problem by using an entity called "global
pstates". The global pstate is a Chip-level entity, so the global entitiy
(Voltage) is managed across the cores. The local pstate is a Core-level
entity, so the local entity (frequency) is managed across threads.

This patch brings down global pstate at a slower rate than the local
pstate. Hence by holding global pstates higher than local pstate makes
the subsequent rampups faster.

A per policy structure is maintained to keep track of the global and
local pstate changes. The global pstate is brought down using a parabolic
equation. The ramp down time to pmin is set to ~5 seconds. To make sure
that the global pstates are dropped at regular interval , a timer is
queued for every 2 seconds during ramp-down phase, which eventually brings
the pstate down to local pstate.

Iozone results show fairly consistent performance boost.
YCSB on redis shows improved Max latencies in most cases.

Iozone write/rewite test were made with filesizes 200704Kb and 401408Kb
with different record sizes . The following table shows IOoperations/sec
with and without patch.

Iozone Results ( in op/sec) ( mean over 3 iterations )
---------------------------------------------------------------------
file size-                      with            without		  %
recordsize-IOtype               patch           patch		change
----------------------------------------------------------------------
200704-1-SeqWrite               1616532         1615425         0.06
200704-1-Rewrite                2423195         2303130         5.21
200704-2-SeqWrite               1628577         1602620         1.61
200704-2-Rewrite                2428264         2312154         5.02
200704-4-SeqWrite               1617605         1617182         0.02
200704-4-Rewrite                2430524         2351238         3.37
200704-8-SeqWrite               1629478         1600436         1.81
200704-8-Rewrite                2415308         2298136         5.09
200704-16-SeqWrite              1619632         1618250         0.08
200704-16-Rewrite               2396650         2352591         1.87
200704-32-SeqWrite              1632544         1598083         2.15
200704-32-Rewrite               2425119         2329743         4.09
200704-64-SeqWrite              1617812         1617235         0.03
200704-64-Rewrite               2402021         2321080         3.48
200704-128-SeqWrite             1631998         1600256         1.98
200704-128-Rewrite              2422389         2304954         5.09
200704-256 SeqWrite             1617065         1616962         0.00
200704-256-Rewrite              2432539         2301980         5.67
200704-512-SeqWrite             1632599         1598656         2.12
200704-512-Rewrite              2429270         2323676         4.54
200704-1024-SeqWrite            1618758         1616156         0.16
200704-1024-Rewrite             2431631         2315889         4.99
401408-1-SeqWrite               1631479         1608132         1.45
401408-1-Rewrite                2501550         2459409         1.71
401408-2-SeqWrite               1617095         1626069         -0.55
401408-2-Rewrite                2507557         2443621         2.61
401408-4-SeqWrite               1629601         1611869         1.10
401408-4-Rewrite                2505909         2462098         1.77
401408-8-SeqWrite               1617110         1626968         -0.60
401408-8-Rewrite                2512244         2456827         2.25
401408-16-SeqWrite              1632609         1609603         1.42
401408-16-Rewrite               2500792         2451405         2.01
401408-32-SeqWrite              1619294         1628167         -0.54
401408-32-Rewrite               2510115         2451292         2.39
401408-64-SeqWrite              1632709         1603746         1.80
401408-64-Rewrite               2506692         2433186         3.02
401408-128-SeqWrite             1619284         1627461         -0.50
401408-128-Rewrite              2518698         2453361         2.66
401408-256-SeqWrite             1634022         1610681         1.44
401408-256-Rewrite              2509987         2446328         2.60
401408-512-SeqWrite             1617524         1628016         -0.64
401408-512-Rewrite              2504409         2442899         2.51
401408-1024-SeqWrite            1629812         1611566         1.13
401408-1024-Rewrite             2507620          2442968        2.64

Tested with YCSB workload (50% update + 50% read) over redis for 1 million
records and 1 million operation. Each test was carried out with target
operations per second and persistence disabled.

Max-latency (in us)( mean over 5 iterations )
---------------------------------------------------------------
op/s    Operation       with patch      without patch   %change
---------------------------------------------------------------
15000   Read            61480.6         50261.4         22.32
15000   cleanup         215.2           293.6           -26.70
15000   update          25666.2         25163.8         2.00

25000   Read            32626.2         89525.4         -63.56
25000   cleanup         292.2           263.0           11.10
25000   update          32293.4         90255.0         -64.22

35000   Read            34783.0         33119.0         5.02
35000   cleanup         321.2           395.8           -18.8
35000   update          36047.0         38747.8         -6.97

40000   Read            38562.2         42357.4         -8.96
40000   cleanup         371.8           384.6           -3.33
40000   update          27861.4         41547.8         -32.94

45000   Read            42271.0         88120.6         -52.03
45000   cleanup         263.6           383.0           -31.17
45000   update          29755.8         81359.0         -63.43

(test without target op/s)
47659   Read            83061.4         136440.6        -39.12
47659   cleanup         195.8           193.8           1.03
47659   update          73429.4         124971.8        -41.24

Signed-off-by: Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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