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Commit f6d3093d authored by Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Todd Kjos
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BACKPORT: sched: idle: Do not stop the tick upfront in the idle loop

Push the decision whether or not to stop the tick somewhat deeper
into the idle loop.

Stopping the tick upfront leads to unpleasant outcomes in case the
idle governor doesn't agree with the nohz code on the duration of the
upcoming idle period.  Specifically, if the tick has been stopped and
the idle governor predicts short idle, the situation is bad regardless
of whether or not the prediction is accurate.  If it is accurate, the
tick has been stopped unnecessarily which means excessive overhead.
If it is not accurate, the CPU is likely to spend too much time in
the (shallow, because short idle has been predicted) idle state
selected by the governor [1].

As the first step towards addressing this problem, change the code
to make the tick stopping decision inside of the loop in do_idle().
In particular, do not stop the tick in the cpu_idle_poll() code path.
Also don't do that in tick_nohz_irq_exit() which doesn't really have
enough information on whether or not to stop the tick.

Cherry-picked from 2aaf709a518d26563b80fd7a42379d7aa7ffed4a

 - Fixed conflict with tick_nohz_stopped_cpu not appearing in the
   chunk context. Trivial fix.

Change-Id: Ie316e210971f28aae80dd0f35c5564cb17a81901
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=150116085925208&w=2 # [1]
Link: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/projekte/haec/powernightmares.pdf


Suggested-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Paven Kondati <pkondeti@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
parent 55e591cc
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