linux/tools
Len Brown 0102b06747 tools/power turbostat: detect and work around syscall jitter
The accuracy of Bzy_Mhz and Busy% depend on reading
the TSC, APERF, and MPERF close together in time.

When there is a very short measurement interval,
or a large system is profoundly idle, the changes
in APERF and MPERF may be very small.
They can be small enough that an expensive interrupt
between reading APERF and MPERF can cause the APERF/MPERF
ratio to become inaccurate, resulting in invalid
calculation and display of Bzy_MHz.

A dummy APERF read of APERF makes this problem
much more rare.  Apparently this 1st systemn call
after exiting a long stretch of idle is when we
typically see expensive timer interrupts that cause
large jitter.

For the cases that dummy APERF read fails to prevent,
we compare the latency of the APERF and MPERF reads.
If they differ by more than 2x, we re-issue them.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2016-03-13 03:55:41 -04:00
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arch tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
build tools build: Fix libiberty feature detection 2015-10-29 17:46:35 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv tools: hv: add a python script lsvmbus to list VMBus devices 2015-08-05 11:44:29 -07:00
iio iio: generic_buffer: be helpful about enabling channels 2015-08-16 10:51:26 +01:00
include tools include: Add compiler.h to list.h 2015-11-11 18:41:33 -03:00
laptop/freefall Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ 2015-06-08 16:42:07 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: Clean up include dir 2015-08-26 06:12:35 +02:00
lib Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-15 09:36:24 -08:00
net tools/net: Use include/uapi with __EXPORTED_HEADERS__ 2015-11-15 17:24:33 -05:00
nfsd
perf perf list: Robustify event printing routine 2015-12-16 16:43:10 -03:00
power tools/power turbostat: detect and work around syscall jitter 2016-03-13 03:55:41 -04:00
scripts
testing nfit: Adjust for different _FIT and NFIT headers 2015-11-30 14:51:46 -08:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: use pkg-config also for CFLAGS 2015-10-10 11:32:31 +08:00
time
usb usb: patches for v4.4 merge window 2015-10-22 17:19:33 -07:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix byteswap logic 2015-12-07 17:28:10 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: support KPF_IDLE 2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
Makefile tools: Add a "make all" rule 2015-11-12 18:58:10 -03:00