From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Trinabh Gupta <trinabh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
arjan@linux.intel.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
venki@google.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: cpuidle asymmetry (was Re: [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:45:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110401081522.GA22339@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1104010006210.2797@x980>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:09:25AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > > Moorestown is already an example of an asymmetric system,
> > > since its deepest c-state is available on cpu0, but not on cpu1.
> > > So it needs different tables for each cpu.
> >
> > wtf are these hardware guys smoking and how the heck are we supposed to
> > schedule on such a machine? Prefer to keep cpu1 busy while idling cpu0?
>
> they are smoking micro-amps:-)
>
> S0i3 on cpu0 can be entered only after cpu1 is already off-line,
> among other system hardware dependencies...
>
> So it makes no sense to export S0i3 as a c-state on cpu1.
>
> When cpu1 is online, the scheduler treats it as a normal SMP.
Isn't S0i3 a "system" state, as opposed to cpu state ? Perhaps
we can treat it as such and still keep the c-states symmetric.
The cpu can transition to S0i3 from any cpu as long as others are
offlined, no ? In that sense, really all the cpus would
be in S0i3, which would make it symmetric. If this isn't how
mrst cpuidle works, then cpuidle accounting may be broken
in principle because of this.
Thanks
Dipankar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 8:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20110322123324.28725.3131.stgit@tringupt.in.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 14:50 ` [RFC PATCH V4 4/5] cpuidle: driver for xen Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-23 9:57 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 7:18 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 12:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-25 7:19 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 14:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-03-25 14:38 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-03-31 2:02 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 21:26 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 22:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-04-01 3:03 ` Len Brown
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[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103222254420.10549@x980>
2011-03-23 9:22 ` [RFC PATCH V4 2/5] cpuidle: list based cpuidle driver registration and selection Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 20:51 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 4:41 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 14:13 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 16:52 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-25 7:13 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 7:05 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 15:35 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-31 2:25 ` Len Brown
[not found] ` <20110322123244.28725.32435.stgit@tringupt.in.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103222304300.10549@x980>
2011-03-23 9:31 ` [RFC PATCH V4 3/5] cpuidle: default idle driver for x86 Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 16:32 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
[not found] ` <20110322123223.28725.21929.stgit@tringupt.in.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <20110323120044.bb8c0ae1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-03-23 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH V4 1/5] cpuidle: Remove pm_idle pointer " Trinabh Gupta
[not found] ` <20110322123336.28725.29810.stgit@tringupt.in.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <20110323121458.ec7cdaf9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-03-23 10:25 ` [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 20:32 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 14:28 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 16:21 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-25 7:24 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 18:01 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-31 2:17 ` cpuidle asymmetry (was Re: [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm) Len Brown
2011-03-31 13:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 4:09 ` Len Brown
2011-04-01 8:15 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2011-04-01 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-04-03 16:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-01 14:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-04 14:32 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-05 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-05 15:48 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-01 7:02 ` Trinabh Gupta
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