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From: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Decrease the snooze residency
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 13:30:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55696E17.2030700@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150530060141.GA19134@dirshya.in.ibm.com>

On 05/30/2015 11:31 AM, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> * Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2015-05-29 19:17:17]:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>> +	if (max_idle_state > 1) {
>>> +		snooze_timeout_en = true;
>>> +		snooze_timeout = cpuidle_state_table[1].target_residency *
>>> +				 tb_ticks_per_usec;
>>> +	}
>>
>> Any idea why we don't have snooze defined on the shared lpar configuration ?
> 
> In shared lpar case, spinning in guest context may potentially take
> away cycles from other lpars waiting to run on the same physical cpu.
> 
> So the policy in shared lpar case is to let PowerVM hypervisor know
> immediately that the guest cpu is idle which will allow the hypervisor
> to use the cycles for other tasks/lpars.
> 

Oh Ok! Thanks for the clarification !

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
> --Vaidy
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-30  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-29 12:32 [PATCH] cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Decrease the snooze residency Shilpasri G Bhat
2015-05-29 13:47 ` Preeti U Murthy
2015-05-30  6:01   ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2015-05-30  8:00     ` Preeti U Murthy [this message]
2015-05-31  1:38     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-06-03 15:35       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan

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