From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.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: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:02:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110404143259.GA11525@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301666556.4859.695.camel@twins>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:02:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Dipankar's reply seems to address this issue well.
I can't find any Moorestown documentation at the Intel site, but
thinking about Len's inputs a bit more, it seems there may
be still a problem asymetry from the scheduler perspective.
If cpu0 or cpu1 either of them can be offlined, there is no
asymetry. If only cpu1 can be offlined, it would mean that
one cpu may be more efficient depending on how we do
cpu offlining for power savings. It gets a bit messy.
Len, what exacty is the significance of offlining here ?
Apart from going to C6, what else is needed in cpu1 for
the chip to go to S0i3 ? Why is idle C6 not enough ?
Thanks
Dipankar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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
[not found] ` <20110322123233.28725.92874.stgit@tringupt.in.ibm.com>
[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
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 [this message]
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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