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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2019-07-03 20:51:28 -0300
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2019-07-30 17:27:37 +0200
commit2cffe9f6b96fece065ee8522673c90e92ef2085d (patch)
tree9d8f97f6710e7abfd7698705ba75bad51401be6f /drivers/cpuidle/governors/Makefile
parent7d4daeedd575bbc3c40c87fc6708a8b88c50fe7e (diff)
cpuidle: add haltpoll governor
The cpuidle_haltpoll governor, in conjunction with the haltpoll cpuidle driver, allows guest vcpus to poll for a specified amount of time before halting. This provides the following benefits to host side polling: 1) The POLL flag is set while polling is performed, which allows a remote vCPU to avoid sending an IPI (and the associated cost of handling the IPI) when performing a wakeup. 2) The VM-exit cost can be avoided. The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed even with other runnable tasks in the host. Results comparing halt_poll_ns and server/client application where a small packet is ping-ponged: host --> 31.33 halt_poll_ns=300000 / no guest busy spin --> 33.40 (93.8%) halt_poll_ns=0 / guest_halt_poll_ns=300000 --> 32.73 (95.7%) For the SAP HANA benchmarks (where idle_spin is a parameter of the previous version of the patch, results should be the same): hpns == halt_poll_ns idle_spin=0/ idle_spin=800/ idle_spin=0/ hpns=200000 hpns=0 hpns=800000 DeleteC06T03 (100 thread) 1.76 1.71 (-3%) 1.78 (+1%) InsertC16T02 (100 thread) 2.14 2.07 (-3%) 2.18 (+1.8%) DeleteC00T01 (1 thread) 1.34 1.28 (-4.5%) 1.29 (-3.7%) UpdateC00T03 (1 thread) 4.72 4.18 (-12%) 4.53 (-5%) Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/Makefile b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/Makefile
index 42f44cc610dd..63abb5393a4d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/Makefile
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER) += ladder.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU) += menu.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_TEO) += teo.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_HALTPOLL) += haltpoll.o