BACKPORT: sched: idle: Do not stop the tick upfront in the idle loop
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:05:50 +0000 (23:05 +0100)
committerTodd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:08:25 +0000 (19:08 +0000)
commitf6d3093dfc66bf0afcaafa3615ae45cd3ffd6530
tree89880e4def538e9add6b901e2a40555d3ba6520c
parent55e591cc187928bac11cd2596eeea930df845cad
BACKPORT: sched: idle: Do not stop the tick upfront in the idle loop

Push the decision whether or not to stop the tick somewhat deeper
into the idle loop.

Stopping the tick upfront leads to unpleasant outcomes in case the
idle governor doesn't agree with the nohz code on the duration of the
upcoming idle period.  Specifically, if the tick has been stopped and
the idle governor predicts short idle, the situation is bad regardless
of whether or not the prediction is accurate.  If it is accurate, the
tick has been stopped unnecessarily which means excessive overhead.
If it is not accurate, the CPU is likely to spend too much time in
the (shallow, because short idle has been predicted) idle state
selected by the governor [1].

As the first step towards addressing this problem, change the code
to make the tick stopping decision inside of the loop in do_idle().
In particular, do not stop the tick in the cpu_idle_poll() code path.
Also don't do that in tick_nohz_irq_exit() which doesn't really have
enough information on whether or not to stop the tick.

Cherry-picked from 2aaf709a518d26563b80fd7a42379d7aa7ffed4a

 - Fixed conflict with tick_nohz_stopped_cpu not appearing in the
   chunk context. Trivial fix.

Change-Id: Ie316e210971f28aae80dd0f35c5564cb17a81901
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=150116085925208&w=2
Link: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/projekte/haec/powernightmares.pdf
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Paven Kondati <pkondeti@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
include/linux/tick.h
kernel/sched/idle.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.c