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From: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
To: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	arve@android.com, Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00/10] optimize freezing tasks by reducing task wakeups
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:45:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367271946-7239-1-git-send-email-ccross@android.com> (raw)

On slow cpus the large number of task wakeups and context switches
triggered by freezing and thawing tasks can take a significant amount
of cpu time.  This patch series reduces the amount of work done during
freezing tasks by avoiding waking up tasks that are already in a freezable
state.

The first patch reduces the wasted time in try_to_freeze_tasks() by
starting with a 1 ms sleep during the first loop and backing off
up to an 8 ms sleep if all tasks are not frozen.

The second patch modifies the try_to_freeze_tasks() loop to skip tasks
that have set the PF_FREEZER_SKIP flag by calling freezer_do_not_count().
These tasks will not enter the refrigerator during the suspend/resume
cycle unless they woken up by something else, in which case they will
enter the refrigerator in freezer_count() before they access any
resources that would not be available in suspend or deadlock with
another freezing/frozen task.

The rest of the series adds a few more freezable helpers and converts the
top call sites that userspace tasks are usually blocked at to freezable
helpers.  The list of call sites was collected on a Nexus 10 (ARM Exynos
5250 SoC), but all the top call sites other than binder show up at the
top of the list on Ubuntu x86-64 as well.

This series cuts the time for freezing tasks from 50 ms to 5 ms when
the cpu speed is locked at its lowest setting (200MHz), and reduces
the number of context switches and restarted syscalls from 1000 to
25.

             reply	other threads:[~2013-04-29 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 21:45 Colin Cross [this message]
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 01/10] freezer: shorten freezer sleep time using exponential backoff Colin Cross
2013-05-02 12:28   ` Pavel Machek
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 02/10] freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER_SKIP set Colin Cross
2013-04-29 21:51   ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-29 21:57     ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-29 22:02       ` Colin Cross
2013-04-29 22:08         ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-29 22:16           ` Tejun Heo
2013-04-30 11:48             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-04-30 17:10   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-30 17:15     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 03/10] freezer: add new freezable helpers using freezer_do_not_count() Colin Cross
2013-05-02 12:48   ` Pavel Machek
2013-05-02 13:05     ` Oliver Neukum
2013-05-02 13:46       ` Pavel Machek
2013-05-02 17:05     ` Colin Cross
2013-05-03 14:00       ` Pavel Machek
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 04/10] binder: use freezable blocking calls Colin Cross
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 05/10] epoll: use freezable blocking call Colin Cross
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 06/10] select: " Colin Cross
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 07/10] futex: " Colin Cross
2013-04-29 22:52   ` Darren Hart
2013-04-29 23:46     ` Colin Cross
2013-05-02 19:52     ` Matt Helsley
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 08/10] nanosleep: " Colin Cross
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 09/10] sigtimedwait: " Colin Cross
2013-04-30 16:38   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-30 16:56     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-30 16:58     ` Colin Cross
2013-04-30 17:00       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-29 21:45 ` [PATCH 10/10] af_unix: use freezable blocking calls in read Colin Cross

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