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From: tglozar@redhat.com
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jwyatt@redhat.com, jkacur@redhat.com,
	Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND v3 6/6] rtla: Documentation: Mention --deepest-idle-state
Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2024 11:50:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241004095014.2492813-7-tglozar@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241004095014.2492813-1-tglozar@redhat.com>

From: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>

Add --deepest-idle-state to manpage and mention libcpupower dependency
in README.txt.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst | 8 ++++++++
 tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt                        | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst
index cef6651f1435..10dc802f8d65 100644
--- a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst
+++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
         *cyclictest* sets this value to *0* by default, use **--dma-latency** *0* to have
         similar results.
 
+**--deepest-idle-state** *n*
+        Disable idle states higher than *n* for cpus that are running timerlat threads to
+        reduce exit from idle latencies. If *n* is -1, all idle states are disabled.
+        On exit from timerlat, the idle state setting is restored to its original state
+        before running timerlat.
+
+        Requires rtla to be built with libcpupower.
+
 **-k**, **--kernel-threads**
 
         Use timerlat kernel-space threads, in contrast of **-u**.
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt b/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt
index 4af3fd40f171..dd5621038c55 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ RTLA depends on the following libraries and tools:
 
  - libtracefs
  - libtraceevent
+ - libcpupower (optional, for --deepest-idle-state)
 
 It also depends on python3-docutils to compile man pages.
 
@@ -26,6 +27,9 @@ For development, we suggest the following steps for compiling rtla:
   $ make
   $ sudo make install
   $ cd ..
+  $ cd $libcpupower_src
+  $ make
+  $ sudo make install
   $ cd $rtla_src
   $ make
   $ sudo make install
-- 
2.46.2


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-04  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-04  9:50 [PATCH RESEND v3 0/6] rtla: Support idle state disabling via libcpupower in timerlat tglozar
2024-10-04  9:50 ` [PATCH RESEND v3 1/6] tools/build: Add libcpupower dependency detection tglozar
2024-10-04  9:50 ` [PATCH RESEND v3 2/6] rtla: Add optional dependency on libcpupower tglozar
2024-10-04  9:50 ` [PATCH RESEND v3 3/6] rtla/utils: Add idle state disabling via libcpupower tglozar
2024-10-10 20:06   ` Steven Rostedt
2024-10-11 10:46     ` Tomas Glozar
2024-10-04  9:50 ` [PATCH RESEND v3 4/6] rtla/timerlat: Add --deepest-idle-state for top tglozar
2024-10-04  9:50 ` [PATCH RESEND v3 5/6] rtla/timerlat: Add --deepest-idle-state for hist tglozar
2024-10-04  9:50 ` tglozar [this message]

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