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authorShreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-07-01 09:24:14 -0500
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2016-07-04 14:17:34 +0200
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cpuidle: Fix last_residency division
Snooze is a poll idle state in powernv and pseries platforms. Snooze has a timeout so that if a CPU stays in snooze for more than target residency of the next available idle state, then it would exit thereby giving chance to the cpuidle governor to re-evaluate and promote the CPU to a deeper idle state. Therefore whenever snooze exits due to this timeout, its last_residency will be target_residency of the next deeper state. Commit e93e59ce5b85 "cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local_clock()" changed the math around last_residency calculation. Specifically, while converting last_residency value from nano- to microseconds, it carries out right shift by 10. Because of that, in snooze timeout exit scenarios last_residency calculated is roughly 2.3% less than target_residency of the next available state. This pattern is picked up by get_typical_interval() in the menu governor and therefore expected_interval in menu_select() is frequently less than the target_residency of any state other than snooze. Due to this we are entering snooze at a higher rate, thereby affecting the single thread performance. Fix this by using more precise division via ktime_us_delta(). Fixes: e93e59ce5b85 "cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local_clock()" Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Bisected-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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