linux-kernel - Re: [RFT][PATCH v2 0/3] cpuidle: teo: Do not check timers unconditionally every time

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0iDkUF+hkS-f+9_ZvahOMnEZi3nvGoE4ytfRwHg9vw=cw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:11:58 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH v2 0/3] cpuidle: teo: Do not check timers
 unconditionally every time

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 5:10 PM Anna-Maria Behnsen
<anna-maria@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 5:38 PM Anna-Maria Behnsen
> > <anna-maria@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 11:12 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Folks,
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the second iteration of:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/4511619.LvFx2qVVIh@kreacher/
> > > > >
> > > > > with an additional patch.
> > > > >
> > > > > There are some small modifications of patch [1/3] and the new
> > > > > patch causes governor statistics to play a role in deciding whether
> > > > > or not to stop the scheduler tick.
> > > > >
> > > > > Testing would be much appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > For convenience, this series is now available in the following git branch:
> > > >
> > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git \
> > > >  pm-cpuidle-teo
> > > >
> > >
> > > Gauthams tests and the distribution of idle time durations looks pretty
> > > good. Also the prevention of calling tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is very
> > > nice (21477 calls of tick_nohz_next_event() and the tick was stopped 2670
> > > times).
> > >
> > > Here is the deviation of idle time durations (based on your branch):
> > >
> > > Idle Total              2670    100.00%
> > > x >= 4ms                2537    95.02%
> > > 4ms> x >= 2ms           19      0.71%
> > > 2ms > x >= 1ms          10      0.37%
> > > 1ms > x >= 500us        7       0.26%
> > > 500us > x >= 250us      6       0.22%
> > > 250us > x >=100us       13      0.49%
> > > 100us > x >= 50us       17      0.64%
> > > 50us > x >= 25us        25      0.94%
> > > 25us > x >= 10us        22      0.82%
> > > 10us > x > 5us          9       0.34%
> > > 5us > x                 5       0.19%
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the data!
> >
> > Can I add a Tested-by: tag from you to this series?
> >
>
> Sure - sorry for the delay!

No worries, thanks!