Re: [RFT][PATCH v2 0/3] cpuidle: teo: Do not check timers unconditionally every time

[Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>]

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On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 5:38 PM Anna-Maria Behnsen
> <anna-maria@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 11:12 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > This is the second iteration of:
> > > >
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/4511619.LvFx2qVVIh@kreacher/
> > > >
> > > > with an additional patch.
> > > >
> > > > There are some small modifications of patch [1/3] and the new
> > > > patch causes governor statistics to play a role in deciding whether
> > > > or not to stop the scheduler tick.
> > > >
> > > > Testing would be much appreciated!
> > >
> > > For convenience, this series is now available in the following git branch:
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git \
> > >  pm-cpuidle-teo
> > >
> >
> > Gauthams tests and the distribution of idle time durations looks pretty
> > good. Also the prevention of calling tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is very
> > nice (21477 calls of tick_nohz_next_event() and the tick was stopped 2670
> > times).
> >
> > Here is the deviation of idle time durations (based on your branch):
> >
> > Idle Total              2670    100.00%
> > x >= 4ms                2537    95.02%
> > 4ms> x >= 2ms           19      0.71%
> > 2ms > x >= 1ms          10      0.37%
> > 1ms > x >= 500us        7       0.26%
> > 500us > x >= 250us      6       0.22%
> > 250us > x >=100us       13      0.49%
> > 100us > x >= 50us       17      0.64%
> > 50us > x >= 25us        25      0.94%
> > 25us > x >= 10us        22      0.82%
> > 10us > x > 5us          9       0.34%
> > 5us > x                 5       0.19%
> 
> Thanks a lot for the data!
> 
> Can I add a Tested-by: tag from you to this series?
> 

Sure - sorry for the delay!