Re: [uml-devel] Dramatic drop in C3 state residency with NO_HZ patches

[Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:29:47PM -0400, Hrishikesh wrote:
> No, I think I haven't been clear enough. The story is right :-) When it is
> "busy-looping" like in the second case is when the C3 residency comes down,
> as expected. Like you said, it looks broken, and has to be fixed.

Yes, your original post was a bit confusing:

> This happens when you run a
> patched kernel but without the NO_HZ and HR timers options disabled.

To my highly logical mind, that double-negative says that you saw the
C3 drop with NO_HZ and hrtimers enabled.

There was also this, which I paid insufficient attention to:

> This does not happen when the tickless option _is_ enabled.

However, it does look like the tickless support induces UML into a
busy loop when NO_HZ is disabled.

BTW, can you measure C3 time with a before-NO_HZ UML, so we can see
that NO_HZ has some sort of benefit on power consumption?

				Jeff

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