Re: [PATCH] x86: Voluntary leave_mm before entering ACPI C3

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:

> > Btw., since the TLB flush state machine is really subtle and 
> > fragile, could you try to run the following mmap stresstest i wrote 
> > some time ago:
> > 
> >    http://redhat.com/~mingo/threaded-mmap-stresstest/
> > 
> > for a couple of hours. It runs nr_cpus threads which then do a 
> > "random crazy mix" of mappings/unmappings/remappings of a 800 MB 
> > memory window. The more sockets/cores, the crazier the TLB races get 
> > ;-)
> > 
> 
> Ingo,
> 
> I ran this stress test on two systems (8 cores and 2 cores) for over 4 
> hours without any issues. There was more than 20% C3 time during the 
> run. So, this C3 tlbflush path must have been stressed well during the 
> run.

ok, great. Regarding power consumption: i suspect a real difference will 
only show up on multi-socket systems that can do deeper C modes, or on 
multicore systems that will benefit from longer idle time on another 
core. (i suspect most multicore CPUs today will only truly save 
significant amounts of power if all cores are idle.) In any case, not 
doing these extra IPIs is definitely a plus.

	Ingo