Re: [RFC V2 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2016-01-20 19:02:14
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:00:33PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
+static void sched_irq_timing_handler(unsigned int irq, ktime_t timestamp, void *dev_id)
+{
+ u32 diff;
+ unsigned int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+ struct wakeup *w = per_cpu(wakeups[irq], cpu);
+
+ /*
+ * It is the first time the interrupt occurs of the series, we
+ * can't do any stats as we don't have an interval, just store
+ * the timestamp and exit.
+ */
+ if (ktime_equal(w->timestamp, ktime_set(0, 0))) {
+ w->timestamp = timestamp;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Microsec resolution is enough for our purpose.
+ */It is also a friggin pointless /1000. The cpuidle code also loves to do this, and its silly, u64 add/sub are _way_ cheaper than u64 / 1000.
+ diff = ktime_us_delta(timestamp, w->timestamp);
+ w->timestamp = timestamp;
+
+ /*
+ * There is no point attempting predictions on interrupts more
+ * than ~1 second apart. This has no benefit for sleep state
+ * selection and increases the risk of overflowing our variance
+ * computation. Reset all stats in that case.
+ */
+ if (diff > (1 << 20)) {
+ stats_reset(&w->stats);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ stats_add(&w->stats, diff);
+}
+
+static ktime_t next_irq_event(void)
+{
+ unsigned int irq, cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+ ktime_t diff, next, min = ktime_set(KTIME_SEC_MAX, 0);
+ ktime_t now = ktime_get();Why !?! do we care about NTP correct timestamps? ktime_get() can be horrendously slow, don't use it for statistics.
+ next = ktime_add_us(w->timestamp, stats_mean(&w->stats)); + s64 next_timer = ktime_to_us(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length()); + s64 next_irq = ktime_to_us(next_irq_event());
more nonsense, just say no.