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Gautham R. Shenoy d947fb4c96 cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
We are currently assuming that CEDE(0) has exit latency 10us, since
there is no way for us to query from the platform. However, if the
wakeup latency of an Extended CEDE state is smaller than 10us, then we
can be sure that the exit latency of CEDE(0) cannot be more than that.

In this patch, we fix the exit latency of CEDE(0) if we discover an
Extended CEDE state with wakeup latency smaller than 10us.

Benchmark results:

On POWER8, this patch does not have any impact since the advertized
latency of Extended CEDE (1) is 30us which is higher than the default
latency of CEDE (0) which is 10us.

On POWER9 we see improvement the single-threaded performance of
ebizzy, and no regression in the wakeup latency or the number of
context-switches.

ebizzy:
2 ebizzy threads bound to the same big-core. 25% improvement in the
avg records/s with patch.

  x without_patch
  * with_patch
      N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
  x  10       2491089       5834307       5398375       4244335     1596244.9
  *  10       2893813       5834474       5832448     5327281.3     1055941.4

context_switch2:
There is no major regression observed with this patch as seen from the
context_switch2 benchmark.

context_switch2 across CPU0 CPU1 (Both belong to same big-core, but
different small cores). We observe a minor 0.14% regression in the
number of context-switches (higher is better).

  x without_patch
  * with_patch
      N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
  x 500        348872        362236        354712     354745.69      2711.827
  * 500        349422        361452        353942      354215.4     2576.9258

  Difference at 99.0% confidence
    -530.288 +/- 430.963
    -0.149484% +/- 0.121485%
    (Student's t, pooled s = 2645.24)

context_switch2 across CPU0 CPU8 (Different big-cores). We observe a
0.37% improvement in the number of context-switches (higher is
better).

  x without_patch
  * with_patch
      N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
  x 500        287956        294940        288896     288977.23     646.59295
  * 500        288300        294646        289582     290064.76     1161.9992

  Difference at 99.0% confidence
    1087.53 +/- 153.194
    0.376337% +/- 0.0530125%
    (Student's t, pooled s = 940.299)

schbench:
No major difference could be seen until the 99.9th percentile.

Without-patch:
  Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0th: 29
        75.0th: 39
        90.0th: 49
        95.0th: 59
        *99.0th: 13104
        99.5th: 14672
        99.9th: 15824
        min=0, max=17993

With-patch:
  Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0th: 29
        75.0th: 40
        90.0th: 50
        95.0th: 61
        *99.0th: 13648
        99.5th: 14768
        99.9th: 15664
        min=0, max=29812

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Minor formatting]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596087177-30329-4-git-send-email-ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2020-07-30 22:53:50 +10:00
arch powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]() 2020-07-30 22:53:49 +10:00
block block-5.8-2020-06-19 2020-06-19 13:11:26 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: drbg - always try to free Jitter RNG instance 2020-06-15 17:38:54 +10:00
Documentation powerpc/book3s64/radix: Add kernel command line option to disable radix GTSE 2020-07-29 21:09:37 +10:00
drivers cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0) 2020-07-30 22:53:50 +10:00
fs A few fixes and small cleanups for tracing: 2020-06-20 13:17:47 -07:00
include kexec_file: Allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole 2020-07-29 23:47:53 +10:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel kexec_file: Allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole 2020-07-29 23:47:53 +10:00
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tools selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection 2020-07-30 22:53:50 +10:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt MIPS: 2020-06-12 11:05:52 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.