linux/kernel/time
Rafael J. Wysocki 554c8aa8ec sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick
In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped,
reorder the code in cpuidle_idle_call() so that the governor idle
state selection runs before tick_nohz_idle_go_idle() and use the
"nohz" hint returned by cpuidle_select() to decide whether or not
to stop the tick.

This isn't straightforward, because menu_select() invokes
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to get the time to the next timer
event and the number returned by the latter comes from
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick().  Fortunately, however, it is possible
to compute that number without actually stopping the tick and with
the help of the existing code.

Namely, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can be made call
tick_nohz_next_event(), introduced earlier, to get the time to the
next non-highres timer event.  If that happens, tick_nohz_next_event()
need not be called by __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() again.

If it turns out that the scheduler tick cannot be stopped going
forward or the next timer event is too close for the tick to be
stopped, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can simply return the time to
the next event currently programmed into the corresponding clock
event device.

In addition to knowing the return value of tick_nohz_next_event(),
however, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() needs to know the time to the
next highres timer event, but with the scheduler tick timer excluded,
which can be computed with the help of hrtimer_get_next_event().

That minimum of that number and the tick_nohz_next_event() return
value is the total time to the next timer event with the assumption
that the tick will be stopped.  It can be returned to the idle
governor which can use it for predicting idle duration (under the
assumption that the tick will be stopped) and deciding whether or
not it makes sense to stop the tick before putting the CPU into the
selected idle state.

With the above, the sleep_length field in struct tick_sched is not
necessary any more, so drop it.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199227
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-by: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2018-04-09 11:54:07 +02:00
..
alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Ensure RTC module is not unloaded 2017-08-31 21:36:45 +02:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Retry programming min delta up to 10 times 2017-10-19 16:29:15 +02:00
clocksource.c treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
hrtimer.c time: hrtimer: Introduce hrtimer_next_event_without() 2018-04-07 18:49:54 +02:00
itimer.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
jiffies.c jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC 2017-03-07 11:03:28 +01:00
Kconfig sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -08:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ntp_internal.h Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 17:56:58 -08:00
ntp.c jiffies: Introduce USER_TICK_USEC and redefine TICK_USEC 2018-04-06 09:28:50 +02:00
posix-clock.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-30 11:55:56 -08:00
posix-stubs.c posix-stubs: Use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64() 2017-10-17 17:22:27 +02:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Protect posix clock array access against speculation 2018-03-22 12:29:27 +01:00
posix-timers.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
sched_clock.c timers, sched_clock: Update timeout for clock wrap 2017-03-23 12:30:27 -07:00
test_udelay.c time: Avoid timespec in udelay_test 2016-06-20 12:47:26 -07:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
tick-broadcast.c tick/broadcast: Make tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() static 2017-06-12 18:56:01 +02:00
tick-common.c ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
tick-internal.h hrtimer: Unify remote enqueue handling 2018-01-16 02:53:58 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Update clockevents device next_event on stop 2017-11-01 18:20:17 +01:00
tick-sched.c sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick 2018-04-09 11:54:07 +02:00
tick-sched.h sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick 2018-04-09 11:54:07 +02:00
time.c Merge branch 'fortglx/4.15/time' of https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux into timers/core 2017-10-31 23:17:28 +01:00
timeconst.bc time: Introduce jiffies64_to_nsecs() 2017-02-01 09:13:45 +01:00
timeconv.c time: Add time64_to_tm() 2016-06-20 12:47:15 -07:00
timecounter.c clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t 2016-12-25 11:04:12 +01:00
timekeeping_debug.c PM / timekeeping: Print debug messages when requested 2017-07-23 00:03:43 +02:00
timekeeping_internal.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
timekeeping.c timekeeping: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD 2017-11-14 11:20:25 +01:00
timekeeping.h Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 17:56:58 -08:00
timer_list.c timer/debug: Change /proc/timer_list from 0444 to 0400 2017-11-13 16:04:06 +01:00
timer.c timers: Forward timer base before migrating timers 2018-02-28 23:34:33 +01:00