linux-sg2042/drivers/cpuidle
Sebastien Rannou ce6031c89a cpuidle: mvebu: Update cpuidle thresholds for Armada XP SOCs
Originally, the thresholds used in the cpuidle driver for Armada SOCs
were temporarily chosen, leaving room for improvements.

This commit updates the thresholds for the Armada XP SOCs with values
that positively impact performances:

                                without patch  with patch   vendor kernel
 - iperf localhost (gbit/sec)   ~3.7           ~6.4         ~5.4
 - ioping tmpfs (iops)          ~163k          ~206k        ~179k
 - ioping tmpfs (mib/s)         ~636           ~805         ~699

The idle power consumption is negatively impacted (proportionally less
than the performance gain), and we are still performing better than
the vendor kernel here:

                                without patch   with patch  vendor kernel
 - power consumption idle (W)   ~2.4            ~3.2        ~4.4
 - power consumption busy (W)   ~8.6            ~8.3        ~8.6

There is still room for improvement regarding the value of these
thresholds, they were chosen to mimic the vendor kernel.

This patch only impacts Armada XP SOCs and was tested on Online Labs
C1 boards. A similar approach can be taken to improve the performances
of the Armada 370 and Armada 38x SOCs.

Thanks a lot to Thomas Petazzoni, Gregory Clement and Willy Tarreau
for the discussions and tips around this topic.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Rannou <mxs@sbrk.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
2015-03-13 18:31:29 +01:00
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governors cpuidle: ladder: Better idle duration measurement without using CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID 2014-12-17 02:26:28 +01:00
Kconfig drivers: cpuidle: CPU idle ARM64 driver 2014-09-25 10:52:21 +02:00
Kconfig.arm cpuidle: exynos: add coupled cpuidle support for exynos4210 2015-01-30 08:39:15 +09:00
Kconfig.arm64 arm64: kernel: remove ARM64_CPU_SUSPEND config option 2015-01-27 11:35:33 +00:00
Kconfig.mips MIPS: Kconfig: Add missing MIPS_CPS dependencies to PM and cpuidle 2014-10-23 19:58:05 +02:00
Kconfig.powerpc powerpc/powernv/cpuidle: Back-end cpuidle driver for powernv platform. 2014-01-29 17:02:24 +11:00
Makefile drivers: cpuidle: CPU idle ARM64 driver 2014-09-25 10:52:21 +02:00
coupled.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
cpuidle-arm64.c arm64: kernel: remove ARM64_CPU_SUSPEND config option 2015-01-27 11:35:33 +00:00
cpuidle-at91.c Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
cpuidle-big_little.c drivers: cpuidle: Don't initialize big.LITTLE driver if MCPM is unavailable 2015-01-23 15:05:48 +01:00
cpuidle-calxeda.c Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
cpuidle-clps711x.c cpuidle: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers 2014-10-20 16:20:24 +02:00
cpuidle-cps.c cpuidle: Invert CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID logic 2014-11-12 21:17:27 +01:00
cpuidle-exynos.c cpuidle: exynos: add coupled cpuidle support for exynos4210 2015-01-30 08:39:15 +09:00
cpuidle-kirkwood.c Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
cpuidle-mvebu-v7.c cpuidle: mvebu: Update cpuidle thresholds for Armada XP SOCs 2015-03-13 18:31:29 +01:00
cpuidle-powernv.c cpuidle: powernv: Avoid endianness conversions while parsing DT 2015-02-19 23:44:38 +01:00
cpuidle-pseries.c cpuidle: Invert CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID logic 2014-11-12 21:17:27 +01:00
cpuidle-ux500.c Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
cpuidle-zynq.c Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
cpuidle.c cpuidle / sleep: Use broadcast timer for states that stop local timer 2015-03-05 23:13:19 +01:00
cpuidle.h cpuidle: support multiple drivers 2012-11-15 00:34:23 +01:00
driver.c cpuidle: Invert CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID logic 2014-11-12 21:17:27 +01:00
dt_idle_states.c Merge back earlier cpuidle material for 3.19-rc1. 2014-11-21 16:31:42 +01:00
dt_idle_states.h drivers: cpuidle: implement DT based idle states infrastructure 2014-09-25 10:52:20 +02:00
governor.c cpuidle: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp 2014-09-25 01:17:10 +02:00
sysfs.c cpuidle: fix permission for driver name sysfs node 2014-07-19 21:43:28 +02:00