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From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
To: 'Yu Chen' <yu.c.chen@intel.com>, 'Len Brown' <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "'Thomas Ilsche'" <thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de>,
	"'Marcus Hähnel'" <mhaehnel@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>,
	"'Daniel Hackenberg'" <daniel.hackenberg@tu-dresden.de>,
	"'Robert Schöne'" <robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de>,
	mario.bielert@tu-dresden.de,
	"'Rafael J. Wysocki'" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	"'Alex Shi'" <alex.shi@linaro.org>,
	"'Ingo Molnar'" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"'Rik van Riel'" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"'Daniel Lezcano'" <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	"'Nicholas Piggin'" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	"'Ying Huang'" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	"'Linux PM list'" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] cpuidle: Allow menu governor to enter deeper sleep states after some time
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:26:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001e01d358ae$48258a90$d8709fb0$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CJNmeKLfst1L5CJNneFmdJ

On 2017.11.07.10:01 22:01 Yu Chen wrote:

... [snip]...

> According to the ftrace, there are mainly two problems here:
>
> 1. A local apic timer seems to always arrive earlier than it should be,
>   which causes the breakage of deep cstate, as a result the menu governor
>   would get a short 'next timer' event, which brings the cpu into poll_idle:

... [snip]...
      
> Question 1 is the reason why the cpu choose poll_idle, ...
> , and I think question 1 needs to be further investigated
> whether we program the clockevent too soon(than it should be),

Agreed.
Thank you for the information.

...[snip]...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a181bf42-9462-476c-6dcd-39fc7151957f@tu-dresden.de>
2017-07-27 12:50 ` [PATCH] cpuidle: Allow menu governor to enter deeper sleep states after some time Thomas Ilsche
2017-10-19  7:46   ` Len Brown
2017-10-20 16:31     ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-10-21 14:27     ` Doug Smythies
2017-10-20  0:17 ` Doug Smythies
2017-10-20 17:13   ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-10-21 14:28   ` Doug Smythies
2017-11-07 23:04     ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-11-08  4:53       ` Len Brown
2017-11-08  6:01         ` Yu Chen
2017-11-08 16:26         ` Doug Smythies [this message]
2017-11-08 16:26     ` Doug Smythies
2017-11-10 17:42     ` Doug Smythies
2017-11-14  6:12     ` Doug Smythies
2017-11-16 16:11       ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-11-16 22:47       ` Doug Smythies
2017-11-24 17:36       ` Doug Smythies
2017-12-02 12:56         ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-12-15 10:44           ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-12-15 14:23             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-12-21  9:43               ` Thomas Ilsche
2017-12-22 19:37                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-12-15 16:16             ` Doug Smythies
2017-12-16  2:34               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-11-25 16:30       ` Doug Smythies

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