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cpuidle: teo: Use kerneldoc documentation in admin-guide
There are two descriptions of the TEO (Timer Events Oriented) cpuidle governor in the kernel source tree, one in the C file containing its code and one in cpuidle.rst which is part of admin-guide. Instead of trying to keep them both in sync and in order to reduce text duplication, include the governor description from the C file directly into cpuidle.rst. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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@ -347,81 +347,8 @@ for tickless systems. It follows the same basic strategy as the ``menu`` `one
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<menu-gov_>`_: it always tries to find the deepest idle state suitable for the
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given conditions. However, it applies a different approach to that problem.
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First, it does not use sleep length correction factors, but instead it attempts
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to correlate the observed idle duration values with the available idle states
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and use that information to pick up the idle state that is most likely to
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"match" the upcoming CPU idle interval. Second, it does not take the tasks
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that were running on the given CPU in the past and are waiting on some I/O
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operations to complete now at all (there is no guarantee that they will run on
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the same CPU when they become runnable again) and the pattern detection code in
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it avoids taking timer wakeups into account. It also only uses idle duration
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values less than the current time till the closest timer (with the scheduler
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tick excluded) for that purpose.
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Like in the ``menu`` governor `case <menu-gov_>`_, the first step is to obtain
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the *sleep length*, which is the time until the closest timer event with the
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assumption that the scheduler tick will be stopped (that also is the upper bound
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on the time until the next CPU wakeup). That value is then used to preselect an
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idle state on the basis of three metrics maintained for each idle state provided
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by the ``CPUIdle`` driver: ``hits``, ``misses`` and ``early_hits``.
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The ``hits`` and ``misses`` metrics measure the likelihood that a given idle
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state will "match" the observed (post-wakeup) idle duration if it "matches" the
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sleep length. They both are subject to decay (after a CPU wakeup) every time
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the target residency of the idle state corresponding to them is less than or
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equal to the sleep length and the target residency of the next idle state is
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greater than the sleep length (that is, when the idle state corresponding to
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them "matches" the sleep length). The ``hits`` metric is increased if the
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former condition is satisfied and the target residency of the given idle state
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is less than or equal to the observed idle duration and the target residency of
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the next idle state is greater than the observed idle duration at the same time
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(that is, it is increased when the given idle state "matches" both the sleep
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length and the observed idle duration). In turn, the ``misses`` metric is
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increased when the given idle state "matches" the sleep length only and the
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observed idle duration is too short for its target residency.
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The ``early_hits`` metric measures the likelihood that a given idle state will
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"match" the observed (post-wakeup) idle duration if it does not "match" the
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sleep length. It is subject to decay on every CPU wakeup and it is increased
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when the idle state corresponding to it "matches" the observed (post-wakeup)
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idle duration and the target residency of the next idle state is less than or
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equal to the sleep length (i.e. the idle state "matching" the sleep length is
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deeper than the given one).
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The governor walks the list of idle states provided by the ``CPUIdle`` driver
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and finds the last (deepest) one with the target residency less than or equal
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to the sleep length. Then, the ``hits`` and ``misses`` metrics of that idle
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state are compared with each other and it is preselected if the ``hits`` one is
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greater (which means that that idle state is likely to "match" the observed idle
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duration after CPU wakeup). If the ``misses`` one is greater, the governor
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preselects the shallower idle state with the maximum ``early_hits`` metric
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(or if there are multiple shallower idle states with equal ``early_hits``
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metric which also is the maximum, the shallowest of them will be preselected).
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[If there is a wakeup latency constraint coming from the `PM QoS framework
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<cpu-pm-qos_>`_ which is hit before reaching the deepest idle state with the
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target residency within the sleep length, the deepest idle state with the exit
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latency within the constraint is preselected without consulting the ``hits``,
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``misses`` and ``early_hits`` metrics.]
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Next, the governor takes several idle duration values observed most recently
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into consideration and if at least a half of them are greater than or equal to
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the target residency of the preselected idle state, that idle state becomes the
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final candidate to ask for. Otherwise, the average of the most recent idle
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duration values below the target residency of the preselected idle state is
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computed and the governor walks the idle states shallower than the preselected
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one and finds the deepest of them with the target residency within that average.
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That idle state is then taken as the final candidate to ask for.
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Still, at this point the governor may need to refine the idle state selection if
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it has not decided to `stop the scheduler tick <idle-cpus-and-tick_>`_. That
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generally happens if the target residency of the idle state selected so far is
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less than the tick period and the tick has not been stopped already (in a
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previous iteration of the idle loop). Then, like in the ``menu`` governor
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`case <menu-gov_>`_, the sleep length used in the previous computations may not
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reflect the real time until the closest timer event and if it really is greater
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than that time, a shallower state with a suitable target residency may need to
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be selected.
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/cpuidle/governors/teo.c
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:doc: teo-description
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.. _idle-states-representation:
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2018 - 2021 Intel Corporation
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* Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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*/
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/**
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* DOC: teo-description
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*
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* The idea of this governor is based on the observation that on many systems
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* timer events are two or more orders of magnitude more frequent than any
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*
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* The computations carried out by this governor are based on using bins whose
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* boundaries are aligned with the target residency parameter values of the CPU
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* idle states provided by the cpuidle driver in the ascending order. That is,
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* idle states provided by the %CPUIdle driver in the ascending order. That is,
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* the first bin spans from 0 up to, but not including, the target residency of
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* the second idle state (idle state 1), the second bin spans from the target
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* residency of idle state 1 up to, but not including, the target residency of
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* situations are referred to as "intercepts" below).
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*
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* In addition to the metrics described above, the governor counts recent
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* intercepts (that is, intercepts that have occurred during the last NR_RECENT
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* invocations of it for the given CPU) for each bin.
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* intercepts (that is, intercepts that have occurred during the last
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* %NR_RECENT invocations of it for the given CPU) for each bin.
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*
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* In order to select an idle state for a CPU, the governor takes the following
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* steps (modulo the possible latency constraint that must be taken into account
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* shallower than the candidate one.
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*
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* 2. If the second sum is greater than the first one or the third sum is
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* greater than NR_RECENT / 2, the CPU is likely to wake up early, so look
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* greater than %NR_RECENT / 2, the CPU is likely to wake up early, so look
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* for an alternative idle state to select.
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*
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* - Traverse the idle states shallower than the candidate one in the
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