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Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar --- 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