When bailing out early, teo will not query the sleep length anymore
since commit 6da8f9ba5a ("cpuidle: teo:
Skip tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() call in some cases") with an
expected sleep_length_ns value of KTIME_MAX.
This lead to state0 accumulating lots of 'intercepts' because
the actually measured sleep length was < KTIME_MAX, so query the sleep
length instead for teo to recognize if it still is in an
intercept-likely scenario without alternating between the two modes.
Fundamentally we can only do one of the two:
1. Skip sleep_length_ns query when we think intercept is likely.
2. Have accurate data if sleep_length_ns is actually intercepted when
we believe it is currently intercepted.
Previously teo did the former while this patch chooses the latter as
the additional time it takes to query the sleep length was found to be
negligible and the variants of option 1 (count all unknowns as misses
or count all unknown as hits) had significant regressions (as misses
had lots of too shallow idle state selections and as hits had terrible
performance in intercept-heavy workloads).
Fixes: 6da8f9ba5a ("cpuidle: teo: Skip tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() call in some cases")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c40acf72-010f-4a8b-80e4-33f133ba266b@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The logic for recent intercepts didn't work, there is an underflow
of the 'recent' value that can be observed during boot already, which
teo usually doesn't recover from, making the entire logic pointless.
Furthermore the recent intercepts also were never reset, thus not
actually being very 'recent'.
Having underflowed 'recent' values lead to teo always acting as if
we were in a scenario were expected sleep length based on timers is
too high and it therefore unnecessarily selecting shallower states.
Experiments show that the remaining 'intercept' logic is enough to
quickly react to scenarios in which teo cannot rely on the timer
expected sleep length.
See also here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0ce2d536-1125-4df8-9a5b-0d5e389cd8af@arm.com/
Fixes: 77577558f2 ("cpuidle: teo: Rework most recent idle duration values treatment")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240628095955.34096-3-christian.loehle@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This reverts commit 9ce0f7c4bc.
Util-awareness was reported to be too aggressive in selecting shallower
states. Additionally a single threshold was found to not be suitable
for reasoning about sleep length as, for all practical purposes,
almost arbitrary sleep lengths are still possible for any load value.
Fixes: 9ce0f7c4bc ("cpuidle: teo: Introduce util-awareness")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240628095955.34096-2-christian.loehle@arm.com
Reported-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The performance impact of loadavg was removed with commit a7fe5190c0
("cpuidle: menu: Remove get_loadavg() from the performance multiplier")
With only iowait remaining the description can be simplified, remove
also the no longer needed includes.
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
make C=1 reports:
warning: Function parameter or struct member 'dev' not described in 'ladder_do_selection'
Document 'dev' for this function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Notice that it is not necessary to assign tick_intercept_sum in every
iteration of the first loop over idle states in teo_select(), because
the intercept_sum value does not change after the assignment in a
given iteration of the loop, so its value after the last iteration of
the loop can be used for computing the tick_intercept_sum value
directly.
Modify the code accordingly.
No intentional functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Because the cost of calling tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() may increase
in the future, reorder the code in menu_select() so it first uses the
statistics to determine the expected idle duration. If that value is
higher than RESIDENCY_THRESHOLD_NS, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() will
be called to obtain the time till the closest timer and refine the
idle duration prediction if necessary.
This causes the governor to always take the full overhead of
get_typical_interval() with the assumption that the cost will be
amortized by skipping the tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() call in the
cases when the predicted idle duration is relatively very small.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Currently, if the target residency of the deepest idle state is less than
the tick period length, which is quite likely for HZ=100, and the deepest
idle state is about to be selected by the TEO idle governor, the decision
on whether or not to stop the scheduler tick is based entirely on the
time till the closest timer. This is often insufficient, because timers
may not be in heavy use and there may be a plenty of other CPU wakeup
events between the deepest idle state's target residency and the closest
tick.
Allow the governor to count those events by making the deepest idle
state's bin effectively end at TICK_NSEC and introducing an additional
"bin" for collecting "hit" events (ie. the ones in which the measured
idle duration falls into the same bin as the time till the closest
timer) with idle duration values past TICK_NSEC.
This way the "intercepts" metric for the deepest idle state's bin
becomes nonzero in general, and so it can influence the decision on
whether or not to stop the tick possibly increasing the governor's
accuracy in that respect.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
Tested-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Make teo_select() avoid calling tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() if the
candidate idle state to return is state 0 or if state 0 is a polling
one and the target residency of the current candidate one is below
a certain threshold, in which cases it may be assumed that the CPU will
be woken up immediately by a non-timer wakeup source and the timers
are not likely to matter.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
Tested-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Because the cost of calling tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() may increase
in the future, reorder the code in teo_select() so it first uses the
statistics to pick up a candidate idle state and applies the utilization
heuristic to it and only then calls tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to
obtain the sleep length value and refine the selection if necessary.
This change by itself does not cause tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to
be called less often, but it prepares the code for subsequent changes
that will do so.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
Tested-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Because the utilized field in struct teo_cpu is only used locally in
teo_select(), replace it with a local variable in that function.
No intentional functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
When teo_select() is going to return early in some special cases, make
it avoid stopping the tick if the idle state to be returned is shallow.
In particular, never stop the tick if state 0 is to be returned.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/CAJZ5v0jJxHj65r2HXBTd3wfbZtsg=_StzwO1kA5STDnaPe_dWA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
The TEO governor takes CPU utilization into account by refining idle state
selection when the utilization is above a certain threshold. This is done by
choosing an idle state shallower than the previously selected one.
However, when doing this, the idle duration estimate needs to be
adjusted so as to prevent the scheduler tick from being stopped when the
candidate idle state is shallow, which may lead to excessive energy
usage if the CPU is not woken up quickly enough going forward.
Moreover, if the scheduler tick has been stopped already and the new
idle duration estimate is too small, the replacement candidate state
cannot be used.
Modify the relevant code to take the above observations into account.
Fixes: 9ce0f7c4bc ("cpuidle: teo: Introduce util-awareness")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/CAJZ5v0jJxHj65r2HXBTd3wfbZtsg=_StzwO1kA5STDnaPe_dWA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
Modern interactive systems, such as recent Android phones, tend to have
power efficient shallow idle states. Selecting deeper idle states on a
device while a latency-sensitive workload is running can adversely
impact performance due to increased latency. Additionally, if the CPU
wakes up from a deeper sleep before its target residency as is often the
case, it results in a waste of energy on top of that.
At the moment, none of the available idle governors take any scheduling
information into account. They also tend to overestimate the idle
duration quite often, which causes them to select excessively deep idle
states, thus leading to increased wakeup latency and lower performance
with no power saving. For 'menu' while web browsing on Android for
instance, those types of wakeups ('too deep') account for over 24% of
all wakeups.
At the same time, on some platforms idle state 0 can be power efficient
enough to warrant wanting to prefer it over idle state 1. This is
because the power usage of the two states can be so close that
sufficient amounts of too deep state 1 sleeps can completely offset the
state 1 power saving to the point where it would've been more power
efficient to just use state 0 instead. This is, of course, for systems
where state 0 is not a polling state, such as arm-based devices.
Sleeps that happened in state 0 while they could have used state 1 ('too
shallow') only save less power than they otherwise could have. Too deep
sleeps, on the other hand, harm performance and nullify the potential
power saving from using state 1 in the first place. While taking this
into account, it is clear that on balance it is preferable for an idle
governor to have more too shallow sleeps instead of more too deep sleeps
on those kinds of platforms.
This patch specifically tunes TEO to prefer shallower idle states in
order to reduce wakeup latency and achieve better performance.
To this end, before selecting the next idle state it uses the avg_util
signal of a CPU's runqueue in order to determine to what extent the CPU
is being utilized. This util value is then compared to a threshold
defined as a percentage of the CPU's capacity (capacity >> 6 ie. ~1.5%
in the current implementation). If the util is above the threshold, the
index of the idle state selected by TEO metrics will be reduced by 1,
thus selecting a shallower state. If the util is below the threshold,
the governor defaults to the TEO metrics mechanism to try to select the
deepest available idle state based on the closest timer event and its
own correctness.
The main goal of this is to reduce latency and increase performance for
some workloads. Under some workloads it will result in an increase in
power usage (Geekbench 5) while for other workloads it will also result
in a decrease in power usage compared to TEO (PCMark Web, Jankbench,
Speedometer).
It can provide drastically decreased latency and performance benefits in
certain types of workloads that are sensitive to latency.
Example test results:
1. GB5 (better score, latency & more power usage)
| metric | menu | teo | teo-util-aware |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- |
| gmean score | 2826.5 (0.0%) | 2764.8 (-2.18%) | 2865 (1.36%) |
| gmean power usage [mW] | 2551.4 (0.0%) | 2606.8 (2.17%) | 2722.3 (6.7%) |
| gmean too deep % | 14.99% | 9.65% | 4.02% |
| gmean too shallow % | 2.5% | 5.96% | 14.59% |
| gmean task wakeup latency (asynctask) | 78.16μs (0.0%) | 61.60μs (-21.19%) | 54.45μs (-30.34%) |
2. Jankbench (better score, latency & less power usage)
| metric | menu | teo | teo-util-aware |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- |
| gmean frame duration | 13.9 (0.0%) | 14.7 (6.0%) | 12.6 (-9.0%) |
| gmean jank percentage | 1.5 (0.0%) | 2.1 (36.99%) | 1.3 (-17.37%) |
| gmean power usage [mW] | 144.6 (0.0%) | 136.9 (-5.27%) | 121.3 (-16.08%) |
| gmean too deep % | 26.00% | 11.00% | 2.54% |
| gmean too shallow % | 4.74% | 11.89% | 21.93% |
| gmean wakeup latency (RenderThread) | 139.5μs (0.0%) | 116.5μs (-16.49%) | 91.11μs (-34.7%) |
| gmean wakeup latency (surfaceflinger) | 124.0μs (0.0%) | 151.9μs (22.47%) | 87.65μs (-29.33%) |
Signed-off-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
[ rjw: Comment edits and white space adjustments ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add a no_poll flag to teo_find_shallower_state() that will let the
function optionally not consider polling states.
This allows the caller to guard against the function inadvertently
resulting in TEO putting the CPU in a polling state when that
behaviour is undesirable.
Signed-off-by: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add trace points as are implemented in KVM host halt polling.
This helps tune guest halt polling params.
Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@nutanix.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The word `these' in a comment is repeated, so drop one.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <wangborong@cdjrlc.com>
[ rjw: Changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Rename two local variables in teo_select() so that their names better
reflect their purpose.
No functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
There are three mistakes in the loop in teo_select() that is looking
for an alternative candidate idle state. First, it should walk all
of the idle states shallower than the current candidate one,
including all of the disabled ones, but it terminates after the first
enabled idle state. Second, it should not terminate its last step
if idle state 0 is disabled (which is related to the first issue).
Finally, it may return the current alternative candidate idle state
prematurely if the time span criterion is not met by the idle state
under consideration at the moment.
To address the issues mentioned above, make the loop in question walk
all of the idle states shallower than the current candidate idle state
all the way down to idle state 0 and rearrange the checks in it.
Fixes: 77577558f2 ("cpuidle: teo: Rework most recent idle duration values treatment")
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
- Make intel_pstate support hybrid processors using abstract
performance units in the HWP interface (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add Icelake servers and Cometlake support in no-HWP mode to
intel_pstate (Giovanni Gherdovich).
- Make cpufreq_online() error path be consistent with the CPU
device removal path in cpufreq (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up 3 cpufreq drivers and the statistics code (Hailong Liu,
Randy Dunlap, Shaokun Zhang).
- Make intel_idle use special idle state parameters for C6 when
package C-states are disabled (Chen Yu).
- Rework the TEO (timer events oriented) cpuidle governor to address
some theoretical shortcomings in it (Rafael Wysocki).
- Drop unneeded semicolon from the TEO governor (Wan Jiabing).
- Modify the runtime PM framework to accept unassigned suspend
and resume callback pointers (Ulf Hansson).
- Improve pm_runtime_get_sync() documentation (Krzysztof Kozlowski).
- Improve device performance states support in the generic power
domains (genpd) framework (Ulf Hansson).
- Fix some documentation issues in genpd (Yang Yingliang).
- Make the operating performance points (OPP) framework use the
required-opps DT property in use cases that are not related to
genpd (Hsin-Yi Wang).
- Make lazy_link_required_opp_table() use list_del_init instead of
list_del/INIT_LIST_HEAD (Yang Yingliang).
- Simplify wake IRQs handling in the core system-wide sleep support
code and clean up some coding style inconsistencies in it (Tian
Tao, Zhen Lei).
- Add cooling support to the tegra30 devfreq driver and improve its
DT bindings (Dmitry Osipenko).
- Fix some assorted issues in the devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo
Choi, Dong Aisheng, YueHaibing).
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Merge tag 'pm-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These add hybrid processors support to the intel_pstate driver and
make it work with more processor models when HWP is disabled, make the
intel_idle driver use special C6 idle state paremeters when package
C-states are disabled, add cooling support to the tegra30 devfreq
driver, rework the TEO (timer events oriented) cpuidle governor,
extend the OPP (operating performance points) framework to use the
required-opps DT property in more cases, fix some issues and clean up
a number of assorted pieces of code.
Specifics:
- Make intel_pstate support hybrid processors using abstract
performance units in the HWP interface (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add Icelake servers and Cometlake support in no-HWP mode to
intel_pstate (Giovanni Gherdovich).
- Make cpufreq_online() error path be consistent with the CPU device
removal path in cpufreq (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up 3 cpufreq drivers and the statistics code (Hailong Liu,
Randy Dunlap, Shaokun Zhang).
- Make intel_idle use special idle state parameters for C6 when
package C-states are disabled (Chen Yu).
- Rework the TEO (timer events oriented) cpuidle governor to address
some theoretical shortcomings in it (Rafael Wysocki).
- Drop unneeded semicolon from the TEO governor (Wan Jiabing).
- Modify the runtime PM framework to accept unassigned suspend and
resume callback pointers (Ulf Hansson).
- Improve pm_runtime_get_sync() documentation (Krzysztof Kozlowski).
- Improve device performance states support in the generic power
domains (genpd) framework (Ulf Hansson).
- Fix some documentation issues in genpd (Yang Yingliang).
- Make the operating performance points (OPP) framework use the
required-opps DT property in use cases that are not related to
genpd (Hsin-Yi Wang).
- Make lazy_link_required_opp_table() use list_del_init instead of
list_del/INIT_LIST_HEAD (Yang Yingliang).
- Simplify wake IRQs handling in the core system-wide sleep support
code and clean up some coding style inconsistencies in it (Tian
Tao, Zhen Lei).
- Add cooling support to the tegra30 devfreq driver and improve its
DT bindings (Dmitry Osipenko).
- Fix some assorted issues in the devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo
Choi, Dong Aisheng, YueHaibing)"
* tag 'pm-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (39 commits)
PM / devfreq: passive: Fix get_target_freq when not using required-opp
cpufreq: Make cpufreq_online() call driver->offline() on errors
opp: Allow required-opps to be used for non genpd use cases
cpuidle: teo: remove unneeded semicolon in teo_select()
dt-bindings: devfreq: tegra30-actmon: Add cooling-cells
dt-bindings: devfreq: tegra30-actmon: Convert to schema
PM / devfreq: userspace: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW macro
PM: runtime: Clarify documentation when callbacks are unassigned
PM: runtime: Allow unassigned ->runtime_suspend|resume callbacks
PM: runtime: Improve path in rpm_idle() when no callback
PM: hibernate: remove leading spaces before tabs
PM: sleep: remove trailing spaces and tabs
PM: domains: Drop/restore performance state votes for devices at runtime PM
PM: domains: Return early if perf state is already set for the device
PM: domains: Split code in dev_pm_genpd_set_performance_state()
cpuidle: teo: Use kerneldoc documentation in admin-guide
cpuidle: teo: Rework most recent idle duration values treatment
cpuidle: teo: Change the main idle state selection logic
cpuidle: teo: Cosmetic modification of teo_select()
cpuidle: teo: Cosmetic modifications of teo_update()
...
Fix following coccicheck warning:
drivers/cpuidle/governors/teo.c:315:10-11: Unneeded semicolon
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
There are two descriptions of the TEO (Timer Events Oriented) cpuidle
governor in the kernel source tree, one in the C file containing its
code and one in cpuidle.rst which is part of admin-guide.
Instead of trying to keep them both in sync and in order to reduce
text duplication, include the governor description from the C file
directly into cpuidle.rst.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The TEO (Timer Events Oriented) cpuidle governor uses several most
recent idle duration values for a given CPU to refine the idle state
selection in case the previous long-term trends have not been
followed recently and a new trend appears to be forming. That is
done by computing the average of the most recent idle duration
values falling below the time till the next timer event ("sleep
length"), provided that they are the majority of the most recent
idle duration values taken into account, and using it as the new
expected idle duration value.
However, idle state selection based on that value may not be optimal,
because the average does not really indicate which of the idle states
with target residencies less than or equal to it is likely to be the
best fit.
Thus, instead of computing the average, make the governor carry out
computations based on the distribution of the most recent idle
duration values among the bins corresponding to different idle
states. Namely, if the majority of the most recent idle duration
values taken into consideration are less than the current sleep
length (which means that the CPU is likely to wake up early), find
the idle state closest to the "candidate" one "matching" the sleep
length whose target residency is less than or equal to the majority
of the most recent idle duration values that have fallen below the
current sleep length (which means that it is likely to be "shallow
enough" this time).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Two aspects of the current main idle state selection logic in the
TEO (Timer Events Oriented) cpuidle governor are quite questionable.
First of all, the "hits" and "misses" metrics used by it are only
updated for a given idle state if the time till the next timer event
("sleep length") is between the target residency of that state and
the target residency of the next one. Consequently, they are likely
to become stale if the sleep length tends to fall outside that
interval which increases the likelihood of subomtimal idle state
selection.
Second, the decision on whether or not to select the idle state
"matching" the sleep length is based on the metrics collected for
that state alone, whereas in principle the metrics collected for
the other idle states should be taken into consideration when that
decision is made. For example, if the measured idle duration is less
than the target residency of the idle state "matching" the sleep
length, then it is also less than the target residency of any deeper
idle state and that should be taken into account when considering
whether or not to select any of those states, but currently it is
not.
In order to address the above shortcomings, modify the main idle
state selection logic in the TEO governor to take the metrics
collected for all of the idle states into account when deciding
whether or not to select the one "matching" the sleep length.
Moreover, drop the "misses" metric that becomes redundant after the
above change and rename the "early_hits" metric to "intercepts" so
that its role is better reflected by its name (the idea being that
if a CPU wakes up earlier than indicated by the sleep length, then
it must be a result of a non-timer interrupt that "intercepts" the
CPU).
Also rename the states[] array in struct struct teo_cpu to
state_bins[] to avoid confusing it with the states[] array in
struct cpuidle_driver and update the documentation to match the
new code (and make it more comprehensive while at it).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Initialize local variables in teo_select() where they are declared.
No functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Rename a local variable in teo_update() so that its purpose is better
reflected by its name and use one more local variable in the loop
over the CPU idle states in that function to make the code somewhat
easier to read.
No functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Make the menu governor check the tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer()
return value so as to avoid dealing with negative "sleep length"
values and make it use that value directly when the tick is stopped.
While at it, rename local variable delta_next in menu_select() to
delta_tick which better reflects its purpose.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Modify the TEO governor to take possible negative return values of
tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() into account by changing the data type
of some variables used by it to s64 which allows it to carry out
computations without potentially problematic data type conversions
into u64.
Also change the computations in teo_select() so that the negative
values themselves are handled in a natural way to avoid adding extra
negative value checks to that function.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If the time till the next timer event is shorter than the target
residency of the first idle state (state 0), the TEO governor does
not update its metrics for any idle states, but arguably it should
record a "hit" for idle state 0 in that case, so modify it to do
that.
Accordingly, also make it record an "early hit" for idle state 0 if
the measured idle duration is less than its target residency, which
allows one branch more to be dropped from teo_update().
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fix a simple bug in rotating array index.
Fixes: b26bf6ab71 ("cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems")
Signed-off-by: Ikjoon Jang <ikjn@chromium.org>
Cc: 5.1+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.1+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
There are three places in teo_select() where a given amount of time
is compared with TICK_NSEC if tick_nohz_tick_stopped() returns true,
which is a bit of duplicated code.
Avoid that code duplication by defining a helper function to do the
check and using it in all of the places in question.
No intentional functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If the current state with the maximum "early hits" metric in
teo_select() is also the one "matching" the expected idle duration,
it will be used as the candidate one for selection even if its
"misses" metric is greater than its "hits" metric, which is not
correct.
In that case, the candidate state should be shallower than the
current one and its "early hits" metric should be the maximum
among the idle states shallower than the current one.
To make that happen, modify teo_select() to save the index of
the state whose "early hits" metric is the maximum for the
range of states below the current one and go back to that state
if it turns out that the current one should be rejected.
Fixes: 159e48560f ("cpuidle: teo: Fix "early hits" handling for disabled idle states")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
One purpose of the computations in teo_update() is to determine
whether or not the (saved) time till the next timer event and the
measured idle duration fall into the same "bin", so avoid using
values that include the cpuidle overhead to obtain the latter.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Currently, the cpuidle subsystem uses microseconds as the unit of
time which (among other things) causes the idle loop to incur some
integer division overhead for no clear benefit.
In order to allow cpuidle to measure time in nanoseconds, add two
new fields, exit_latency_ns and target_residency_ns, to represent the
exit latency and target residency of an idle state in nanoseconds,
respectively, to struct cpuidle_state and initialize them with the
help of the corresponding values in microseconds provided by drivers.
Additionally, change cpuidle_governor_latency_req() to return the
idle state exit latency constraint in nanoseconds.
Also meeasure idle state residency (last_residency_ns in struct
cpuidle_device and time_ns in struct cpuidle_driver) in nanoseconds
and update the cpuidle core and governors accordingly.
However, the menu governor still computes typical intervals in
microseconds to avoid integer overflows.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
There are two reasons why CPU idle states may be disabled: either
because the driver has disabled them or because they have been
disabled by user space via sysfs.
In the former case, the state's "disabled" flag is set once during
the initialization of the driver and it is never cleared later (it
is read-only effectively). In the latter case, the "disable" field
of the given state's cpuidle_state_usage struct is set and it may be
changed via sysfs. Thus checking whether or not an idle state has
been disabled involves reading these two flags every time.
In order to avoid the additional check of the state's "disabled" flag
(which is effectively read-only anyway), use the value of it at the
init time to set a (new) flag in the "disable" field of that state's
cpuidle_state_usage structure and use the sysfs interface to
manipulate another (new) flag in it. This way the state is disabled
whenever the "disable" field of its cpuidle_state_usage structure is
nonzero, whatever the reason, and it is the only place to look into
to check whether or not the state has been disabled.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
The TEO governor uses idle duration "bins" defined in accordance with
the CPU idle states table provided by the driver, so that each "bin"
covers the idle duration range between the target residency of the
idle state corresponding to it and the target residency of the closest
deeper idle state. The governor collects statistics for each bin
regardless of whether or not the idle state corresponding to it is
currently enabled.
In particular, the "early hits" metric measures the likelihood of a
situation in which the idle duration measured after wakeup falls into
to given bin, but the time till the next timer (sleep length) falls
into a bin corresponding to one of the deeper idle states. It is
used when the "hits" and "misses" metrics indicate that the state
"matching" the sleep length should not be selected, so that the state
with the maximum "early hits" value is selected instead of it.
If the idle state corresponding to the given bin is disabled, it
cannot be selected and if it turns out to be the one that should be
selected, a shallower idle state needs to be used instead of it.
Nevertheless, the metrics collected for the bin corresponding to it
are still valid and need to be taken into account as though that
state had not been disabled.
As far as the "early hits" metric is concerned, teo_select() tries to
take disabled states into account, but the state index corresponding
to the maximum "early hits" value computed by it may be incorrect.
Namely, it always uses the index of the previous maximum "early hits"
state then, but there may be enabled idle states closer to the
disabled one in question. In particular, if the current candidate
state (whose index is the idx value) is closer to the disabled one
and the "early hits" value of the disabled state is greater than the
current maximum, the index of the current candidate state (idx)
should replace the "maximum early hits state" index.
Modify the code to handle that case correctly.
Fixes: b26bf6ab71 ("cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems")
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: 5.1+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.1+
The TEO governor uses idle duration "bins" defined in accordance with
the CPU idle states table provided by the driver, so that each "bin"
covers the idle duration range between the target residency of the
idle state corresponding to it and the target residency of the closest
deeper idle state. The governor collects statistics for each bin
regardless of whether or not the idle state corresponding to it is
currently enabled.
In particular, the "hits" and "misses" metrics measure the likelihood
of a situation in which both the time till the next timer (sleep
length) and the idle duration measured after wakeup fall into the
given bin. Namely, if the "hits" value is greater than the "misses"
one, that situation is more likely than the one in which the sleep
length falls into the given bin, but the idle duration measured after
wakeup falls into a bin corresponding to one of the shallower idle
states.
If the idle state corresponding to the given bin is disabled, it
cannot be selected and if it turns out to be the one that should be
selected, a shallower idle state needs to be used instead of it.
Nevertheless, the metrics collected for the bin corresponding to it
are still valid and need to be taken into account as though that
state had not been disabled.
For this reason, make teo_select() always use the "hits" and "misses"
values of the idle duration range that the sleep length falls into
even if the specific idle state corresponding to it is disabled and
if the "hits" values is greater than the "misses" one, select the
closest enabled shallower idle state in that case.
Fixes: b26bf6ab71 ("cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: 5.1+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.1+
Rename a local variable in teo_select() in preparation for subsequent
code modifications, no intentional impact.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: 5.1+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.1+
Prevent disabled CPU idle state with target residencies beyond the
anticipated idle duration from being taken into account by the TEO
governor.
Fixes: b26bf6ab71 ("cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: 5.1+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.1+
Right now, guest current governors have the following ratings:
* ladder -> 10
* teo -> 19
* menu -> 20
* haltpoll -> 21
* ladder + nohz=off -> 25
haltpoll governor got introduced and it is now the default governor given
its highest rating -- with ladder+nohz being the exception -- regardless of
idle driver in the guest. An example of an undesirable case is x86 KVM
guests with MWAIT which have intel_idle registered first, and consequently
will have haltpoll be used as governor which would get limited to a poll
state and state 1 and the other states wouldn't get used.
To keep the previous defaults we decrease rating of governor to 9 (below
current lowest rating) and thus rely on @governor switch on
cpuidle_register_driver() to tie in haltpoll idle driver and governor
together.
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Notice that setting measured_us to UINT_MAX in teo_update() earlier
doesn't change the behavior of the following code, so do that and
eliminate a redundant check used for setting measured_us to UINT_MAX.
This change is not expected to alter functionality.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The TEO goveror prevents the scheduler tick from being stopped (unless
stopped already) if there is a PM QoS latency constraint for the given
CPU and the target residency of the deepest idle state matching that
constraint is below the tick boundary.
However, that is problematic if CPUs with PM QoS latency constraints
are idle for long times, because it effectively causes the tick to
run on them all the time which is wasteful. [It is also confusing
and questionable if they are full dynticks CPUs.]
To address that issue, modify the TEO governor to carry out the
entire search for the most suitable idle state (from the target
residency perspective) even if a latency constraint is present,
to allow it to determine the expected idle duration in all cases.
Also, when using the last several measured idle duration values
to refine the idle state selection, make it compare those values
with the current expected idle duration value (instead of
comparing them with the target residency of the idle state
selected so far) which should prevent the tick from being
retained when it makes sense to stop it sometimes (especially
in the presence of PM QoS latency constraints).
Fixes: b26bf6ab71 ("cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
After commit 554c8aa8ec ("sched: idle: Select idle state before
stopping the tick") the menu governor prevents the scheduler tick from
being stopped (unless stopped already) if there is a PM QoS latency
constraint for the given CPU and the target residency of the deepest
idle state matching that constraint is below the tick boundary.
However, that is problematic if CPUs with PM QoS latency constraints
are idle for long times, because it effectively causes the tick to
run on them all the time which is wasteful. [It is also confusing
and questionable if they are full dynticks CPUs.]
To address that issue, make the menu governor allow the tick to be
stopped only if the idle duration predicted by it is beyond the tick
boundary, except when the shallowest idle state is selected upfront
and it is not a "polling" one.
Fixes: 554c8aa8ec ("sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/79b247b3-e056-610e-9a07-e685dfdaa6c9@gmail.com/
Reported-by: Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The cpuidle_haltpoll governor, in conjunction with the haltpoll cpuidle
driver, allows guest vcpus to poll for a specified amount of time before
halting.
This provides the following benefits to host side polling:
1) The POLL flag is set while polling is performed, which allows
a remote vCPU to avoid sending an IPI (and the associated
cost of handling the IPI) when performing a wakeup.
2) The VM-exit cost can be avoided.
The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed
even with other runnable tasks in the host.
Results comparing halt_poll_ns and server/client application
where a small packet is ping-ponged:
host --> 31.33
halt_poll_ns=300000 / no guest busy spin --> 33.40 (93.8%)
halt_poll_ns=0 / guest_halt_poll_ns=300000 --> 32.73 (95.7%)
For the SAP HANA benchmarks (where idle_spin is a parameter
of the previous version of the patch, results should be the
same):
hpns == halt_poll_ns
idle_spin=0/ idle_spin=800/ idle_spin=0/
hpns=200000 hpns=0 hpns=800000
DeleteC06T03 (100 thread) 1.76 1.71 (-3%) 1.78 (+1%)
InsertC16T02 (100 thread) 2.14 2.07 (-3%) 2.18 (+1.8%)
DeleteC00T01 (1 thread) 1.34 1.28 (-4.5%) 1.29 (-3.7%)
UpdateC00T03 (1 thread) 4.72 4.18 (-12%) 4.53 (-5%)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Since this field is shared by all governors, move it to
cpuidle device structure.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this code is licenced under the gpl version 2 as described in the
copying file that acompanies the linux kernel
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528171439.466585205@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
