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powerpc: Use smt_snooze_delay=-1 to always busy loop

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Right now if we want to busy loop and not give up any time to the hypervisor
we put a very large value into smt_snooze_delay. This is sometimes useful
when running a single partition and you want to avoid any latencies due
to the hypervisor or CPU power state transitions. While this works, it's a bit
ugly - how big a number is enough now we have NO_HZ and can be idle for a very
long time.

The patch below makes smt_snooze_delay signed, and a negative value means loop
forever:

echo -1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/smt_snooze_delay

This change shouldn't affect the existing userspace tools (eg ppc64_cpu), but
I'm cc-ing Nathan just to be sure.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard 2010-05-16 20:02:39 +00:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent dd04c63c96
commit b878dc0059
2 changed files with 13 additions and 14 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu, cpu_devices);
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
/* Time in microseconds we delay before sleeping in the idle loop */
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, smt_snooze_delay) = { 100 };
DEFINE_PER_CPU(long, smt_snooze_delay) = { 100 };
static ssize_t store_smt_snooze_delay(struct sys_device *dev,
struct sysdev_attribute *attr,
@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ static ssize_t store_smt_snooze_delay(struct sys_device *dev,
{
struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, sysdev);
ssize_t ret;
unsigned long snooze;
long snooze;
ret = sscanf(buf, "%lu", &snooze);
ret = sscanf(buf, "%ld", &snooze);
if (ret != 1)
return -EINVAL;
@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static ssize_t show_smt_snooze_delay(struct sys_device *dev,
{
struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, sysdev);
return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", per_cpu(smt_snooze_delay, cpu->sysdev.id));
return sprintf(buf, "%ld\n", per_cpu(smt_snooze_delay, cpu->sysdev.id));
}
static SYSDEV_ATTR(smt_snooze_delay, 0644, show_smt_snooze_delay,
@ -70,15 +70,14 @@ static SYSDEV_ATTR(smt_snooze_delay, 0644, show_smt_snooze_delay,
static int __init setup_smt_snooze_delay(char *str)
{
unsigned int cpu;
int snooze;
long snooze;
if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_SMT))
return 1;
if (get_option(&str, &snooze)) {
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
per_cpu(smt_snooze_delay, cpu) = snooze;
}
snooze = simple_strtol(str, NULL, 10);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
per_cpu(smt_snooze_delay, cpu) = snooze;
return 1;
}

10
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
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@ -496,13 +496,14 @@ static int __init pSeries_probe(void)
}
DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, smt_snooze_delay);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(long, smt_snooze_delay);
static void pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep(void)
{
unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
unsigned long start_snooze;
unsigned long in_purr, out_purr;
long snooze = __get_cpu_var(smt_snooze_delay);
/*
* Indicate to the HV that we are idle. Now would be
@ -517,13 +518,12 @@ static void pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep(void)
* has been checked recently. If we should poll for a little
* while, do so.
*/
if (__get_cpu_var(smt_snooze_delay)) {
start_snooze = get_tb() +
__get_cpu_var(smt_snooze_delay) * tb_ticks_per_usec;
if (snooze) {
start_snooze = get_tb() + snooze * tb_ticks_per_usec;
local_irq_enable();
set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
while (get_tb() < start_snooze) {
while ((snooze < 0) || (get_tb() < start_snooze)) {
if (need_resched() || cpu_is_offline(cpu))
goto out;
ppc64_runlatch_off();