cpuidle: Fix last_residency division

shreyasbp · rafaeljw · commit dbd1b8ea43b1 · 2016-07-04T14:17:34.000+02:00
Snooze is a poll idle state in powernv and pseries platforms. Snooze has a timeout so that if a CPU stays in snooze for more than target residency of the next available idle state, then it would exit thereby giving chance to the cpuidle governor to re-evaluate and promote the CPU to a deeper idle state. Therefore whenever snooze exits due to this timeout, its last_residency will be target_residency of the next deeper state. Commit e93e59c "cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local_clock()" changed the math around last_residency calculation. Specifically, while converting last_residency value from nano- to microseconds, it carries out right shift by 10. Because of that, in snooze timeout exit scenarios last_residency calculated is roughly 2.3% less than target_residency of the next available state. This pattern is picked up by get_typical_interval() in the menu governor and therefore expected_interval in menu_select() is frequently less than the target_residency of any state other than snooze. Due to this we are entering snooze at a higher rate, thereby affecting the single thread performance. Fix this by using more precise division via ktime_us_delta(). Fixes: e93e59c "cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local_clock()" Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Bisected-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
 
 	struct cpuidle_state *target_state = &drv->states[index];
 	bool broadcast = !!(target_state->flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP);
-	u64 time_start, time_end;
+	ktime_t time_start, time_end;
 	s64 diff;
 
 	/*
@@ -195,13 +195,13 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
 	sched_idle_set_state(target_state);
 
 	trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(index, dev->cpu);
-	time_start = local_clock();
+	time_start = ns_to_ktime(local_clock());
 
 	stop_critical_timings();
 	entered_state = target_state->enter(dev, drv, index);
 	start_critical_timings();
 
-	time_end = local_clock();
+	time_end = ns_to_ktime(local_clock());
 	trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, dev->cpu);
 
 	/* The cpu is no longer idle or about to enter idle. */
@@ -217,11 +217,7 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
 	if (!cpuidle_state_is_coupled(drv, index))
 		local_irq_enable();
 
-	/*
-	 * local_clock() returns the time in nanosecond, let's shift
-	 * by 10 (divide by 1024) to have microsecond based time.
-	 */
-	diff = (time_end - time_start) >> 10;
+	diff = ktime_us_delta(time_end, time_start);
 	if (diff > INT_MAX)
 		diff = INT_MAX;
 
