From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Preeti Murthy <preeti.lkml@gmail.com>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] idle: store the idle state index in the struct rq
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:56:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F0FF87.3040102@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140204091405.GB19156@gmail.com>
>
> Yeah, so we could put the parameters back by measuring it in
> user-space via a nice utility in tools/, and by matching it to
> relevant hardware signatures (CPU type and cache sizes), plus doing
> some defaults for when we don't have any signature... possibly based
> on a fuzzy search to find the 'closest' system in the table of
> constants.
>
> That would stabilize the boot-to-boot figures while still keeping most
> of the system specific-ness, in a maintainable fashion.
>
> The downside is that we'd have to continuously maintain a table of all
> this info, with new entries added when new CPUs are introduced on the
> market. That's an upside too, btw.
one way out could be to define "buckets" of values this way, and on
the machine round the calibration to the nearest bucket
(but in practice caches get flushed a LOT if the system is not 100%
busy so not sure if this logic really matters outside of benchmarks)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-04 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 14:09 [RFC PATCH 0/3] cpuidle/sched: move main idle function in the idle.c Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cpuidle: split cpuidle_idle_call main function into functions Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 15:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-30 15:39 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 19:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-31 14:10 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] cpuidle: move the cpuidle_idle_call function to idle.c Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 19:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-30 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] idle: store the idle state index in the struct rq Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 15:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-30 16:27 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 16:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-30 17:25 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-30 17:50 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-01-30 21:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-31 9:46 ` Vincent Guittot
2014-01-31 10:04 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-01-31 10:44 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-31 8:45 ` Preeti Murthy
2014-01-31 9:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-31 9:39 ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-01-31 10:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-31 14:04 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-31 14:12 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2014-01-31 15:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-01-31 15:37 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-31 15:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-01-31 16:35 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-01-31 16:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-01-31 18:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-02-01 6:00 ` Brown, Len
2014-02-01 15:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-02-01 19:39 ` Brown, Len
2014-02-01 20:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-02-01 15:40 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-02-03 12:54 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-02-03 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-02-03 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-03 16:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-02-11 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-11 17:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-02-11 19:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-12 15:16 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-02-12 16:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-02-12 17:37 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-02-12 19:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-02-04 9:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-02-04 14:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-02-04 14:56 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2014-02-03 14:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-31 10:15 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-02-03 6:33 ` Preeti U Murthy
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