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Rik reports that he sees an increase in CPU use in one benchmark due to commit 612f1a22f067 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to poll_idle()" that caused poll_idle() to call local_clock() in every iteration of the loop. Utilization increase generally means more non-idle time with respect to total CPU time (on the average) which implies reduced CPU frequency. Doug reports that limiting the rate of local_clock() invocations in there causes much less power to be drawn during a CPU-intensive parallel workload (with idle states 1 and 2 disabled to enforce more state 0 residency). These two reports together suggest that executing local_clock() on multiple CPUs in parallel at a high rate may cause chips to get hot and trigger thermal/power limits on them to kick in, so reduce the rate of local_clock() invocations in poll_idle() to avoid that issue. Fixes: 612f1a22f067 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to poll_idle()" Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Tested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.