Re: [PATCH v2] cpuidle: Fix the menu governor to boost IO performance

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:23:06 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:42:59 +0200
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy
> > efficiency and performance impact.
> 
> This patch clashes a bit with
> cpuidle-menu-governor-reduce-latency-on-exit.patch (which was sent to
> the ACPI maintainers a month ago and ignored).
> 
> <im-fed-up-with-this-crap-ill-just-merge-it-and-if-it-breaks-dont-blame-me>
> 
> 
> I restaged cpuidle-menu-governor-reduce-latency-on-exit.patch so it
> goes after
> cpuidle-fix-the-menu-governor-to-boost-io-performance.patch. perhaps
> you could take a look at Corrado's change?

ok this patch is an interesting approach, I'll need to check if it's
valid to do this in the cpuidle framework (need to check if "what was
my last residency" stays valid until all the way deep into the next
idle, I kinda fear it won't).

As for the amount of gain.. yeah we're talking about maybe 100 cycles
on a .. say 200 usec latency. But it's a neat optimization if it can
work.


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