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Revision dbd1b8ea43b17e2ed4acda72f83ea17f69408682 authored by Shreyas B. Prabhu on 01 July 2016, 14:24:14 UTC, committed by Rafael J. Wysocki on 04 July 2016, 12:17:34 UTC
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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Tip revision: dbd1b8ea43b17e2ed4acda72f83ea17f69408682 authored by Shreyas B. Prabhu on 01 July 2016, 14:24:14 UTC
cpuidle: Fix last_residency division
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