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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5] cpuidle: menu: Handle stopped tick more aggressively
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:34:40PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Commit 87c9fe6ee495 (cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states
> with stopped tick) missed the case when the target residencies of
> deep idle states of CPUs are above the tick boundary which may cause
> the CPU to get stuck in a shallow idle state for a long time.
>
> Say there are two CPU idle states available: one shallow, with the
> target residency much below the tick boundary and one deep, with
> the target residency significantly above the tick boundary. In
> that case, if the tick has been stopped already and the expected
> next timer event is relatively far in the future, the governor will
> assume the idle duration to be equal to TICK_USEC and it will select
> the idle state for the CPU accordingly. However, that will cause the
> shallow state to be selected even though it would have been more
> energy-efficient to select the deep one.
>
> To address this issue, modify the governor to always use the time
> till the closest timer event instead of the predicted idle duration
> if the latter is less than the tick period length and the tick has
> been stopped already. Also make it extend the search for a matching
> idle state if the tick is stopped to avoid settling on a shallow
> state if deep states with target residencies above the tick period
> length are available.
>
> In addition, make it always indicate that the tick should be stopped
> if it has been stopped already for consistency.
>
> Fixes: 87c9fe6ee495 (cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states with stopped tick)
> Reported-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Seems OK,

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

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