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Venki Pallipadi 6378ddb592 time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime 
Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained.
tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time
in a fine grained manner.  But, it is not handling the time spent in
interrupts fully.

Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on
handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps
track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated.

This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can
shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the
frequency.  The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming
soon.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:04 +01:00
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irq genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqs 2007-12-18 18:05:58 +01:00
power driver core: make /sys/power a kobject 2008-01-24 20:40:25 -08:00
time time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime 2008-01-30 13:30:04 +01:00
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acct.c acct: real_parent ppid 2008-01-07 14:55:37 -08:00
audit_tree.c
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
capability.c
cgroup_debug.c
cgroup.c Improve cgroup printks 2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
cpuset.c cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c wait_task_stopped(): pass correct exit_code to wait_noreap_copyout() 2007-11-29 09:24:55 -08:00
extable.c module: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text. 2008-01-29 17:13:18 +11:00
fork.c kernel: add CLONE_IO to specifically request sharing of IO contexts 2008-01-28 10:50:36 +01:00
futex_compat.c [FUTEX] Fix address computation in compat code. 2007-11-09 16:13:08 -08:00
futex.c futex: Prevent stale futex owner when interrupted/timeout 2008-01-08 16:21:39 -08:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup 2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c module: make module_address_lookup safe 2008-01-29 17:13:23 +11:00
Kconfig.hz sched: high-res preemption tick 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Kconfig.instrumentation Tiny clean-up of OPROFILE/KPROBES configuration 2007-12-06 09:41:12 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code 2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
kexec.c vmcoreinfo: add the array length of "free_list" for filtering free pages 2008-01-08 16:10:36 -08:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.c 2008-01-17 15:38:59 -08:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put() 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
kthread.c sched: fix, always create kernel threads with normal priority 2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
latency.c
latencytop.c sched: latencytop support 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep.c softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Makefile sched: latencytop support 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
marker.c Linux Kernel Markers: fix marker mutex not taken upon module load 2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
module.c Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name 2008-01-29 17:13:27 +11:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
panic.c debug: add end-of-oops marker 2007-12-20 15:01:17 +01:00
params.c module: fix the module name length in param_sysfs_builtin 2008-01-29 17:13:24 +11:00
pid.c pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched: rt-watchdog: fix .rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY 2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
posix-timers.c
printk.c printk: revert ktime_get() timestamps 2008-01-27 08:03:54 +01:00
profile.c debug: clean up kernel/profile.c 2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
ptrace.c ptrace: Call arch_ptrace_attach() when request=PTRACE_TRACEME 2008-01-25 08:31:39 +01:00
rcuclassic.c Preempt-RCU: implementation 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupdate.c Preempt-RCU: fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment. 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupreempt_trace.c Preempt-RCU: implementation 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupreempt.c Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handling 2008-01-25 21:08:25 +01:00
rcutorture.c cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
relay.c
resource.c Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAM 2007-11-14 18:45:39 -08:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling 2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
sched_debug.c sched: keep total / count stats in addition to the max for 2008-01-25 21:08:35 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched: keep total / count stats in addition to the max for 2008-01-25 21:08:35 +01:00
sched_idletask.c sched: high-res preemption tick 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
sched_rt.c sched: fix goto retry in pick_next_task_rt() 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
sched_stats.h sched: clean up kernel/sched_stat.h 2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
sched.c sched: print backtrace of running tasks too 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
seccomp.c
signal.c sigwait eats blocked default-ignore signals 2007-11-12 16:05:23 -08:00
softirq.c time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime 2008-01-30 13:30:04 +01:00
softlockup.c softlockup: fix signedness 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
sys_ni.c [COMPAT]: Fix build on COMPAT platforms when CONFIG_NET is disabled. 2007-10-30 21:29:56 -07:00
sys.c x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter 2007-11-17 16:27:00 +01:00
sysctl_check.c sysctl: Infrastructure for per namespace sysctls 2008-01-28 14:55:17 -08:00
sysctl.c [NET]: Remove the empty net_table 2008-01-28 14:56:29 -08:00
taskstats.c kernel/taskstats.c: fix bogus nlmsg_free() 2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
time.c
timer.c time: timer cleanups 2008-01-30 13:30:00 +01:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c
user_namespace.c
user.c uids: merge multiple error paths in alloc_uid() into one 2008-01-25 21:08:26 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
utsname.c
wait.c
workqueue.c cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00