Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/11] Create fast idle path for short idle periods

Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-18T16:36:47Z

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:29:40AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> the most obvious way to do this (for me, maybe I'm naive) is to add another
> C state, lets call it "C1-lite" with its own thresholds and power levels etc,
> and just let that be picked naturally based on the heuristics.
> (if we want to improve the heuristics, that's fine and always welcome but that
> is completely orthogonal in my mind)

C1-lite would then have a threshold < C1, whereas I understood the
desire to be for the fast-idle crud to have a larger threshold than C1
currently has.

That is, from what I understood, they want C1 selected *longer*.