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authorCorrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>2009-09-21 17:04:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:45 -0700
commit672917dcc781ead7652a8b11b1fba14e38ac15b8 (patch)
treec504b7f60737ba8d82eabfa662585d463ae5ea66 /drivers/cpuidle
parent69d25870f20c4b2563304f2b79c5300dd60a067e (diff)
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cpuidle: menu governor: reduce latency on exit
Move the state residency accounting and statistics computation off the hot exit path. On exit, the need to recompute statistics is recorded, and new statistics will be computed when menu_select is called again. The expected effect is to reduce processor wakeup latency from sleep (C-states). We are speaking of few hundreds of cycles reduction out of a several microseconds latency (determined by the hardware transition), so it is difficult to measure. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpuidle')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
index 9f3d77532ab9..68104434ebb5 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
struct menu_device {
int last_state_idx;
+ int needs_update;
unsigned int expected_us;
u64 predicted_us;
@@ -166,6 +167,8 @@ static inline int performance_multiplier(void)
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct menu_device, menu_devices);
+static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_device *dev);
+
/**
* menu_select - selects the next idle state to enter
* @dev: the CPU
@@ -180,6 +183,11 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
data->last_state_idx = 0;
data->exit_us = 0;
+ if (data->needs_update) {
+ menu_update(dev);
+ data->needs_update = 0;
+ }
+
/* Special case when user has set very strict latency requirement */
if (unlikely(latency_req == 0))
return 0;
@@ -231,7 +239,7 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
}
/**
- * menu_reflect - attempts to guess what happened after entry
+ * menu_reflect - records that data structures need update
* @dev: the CPU
*
* NOTE: it's important to be fast here because this operation will add to
@@ -240,6 +248,16 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
static void menu_reflect(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
{
struct menu_device *data = &__get_cpu_var(menu_devices);
+ data->needs_update = 1;
+}
+
+/**
+ * menu_update - attempts to guess what happened after entry
+ * @dev: the CPU
+ */
+static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
+{
+ struct menu_device *data = &__get_cpu_var(menu_devices);
int last_idx = data->last_state_idx;
unsigned int last_idle_us = cpuidle_get_last_residency(dev);
struct cpuidle_state *target = &dev->states[last_idx];