linux-hardened/include/linux/pm_qos_params.h
Tim Chen 333c5ae994 idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
Thanks to the reviews and comments by Rafael, James, Mark and Andi.
Here's version 2 of the patch incorporating your comments and also some
update to my previous patch comments.

I noticed that before entering idle state, the menu idle governor will
look up the current pm_qos target value according to the list of qos
requests received.  This look up currently needs the acquisition of a
lock to access the list of qos requests to find the qos target value,
slowing down the entrance into idle state due to contention by multiple
cpus to access this list.  The contention is severe when there are a lot
of cpus waking and going into idle.  For example, for a simple workload
that has 32 pair of processes ping ponging messages to each other, where
64 cpu cores are active in test system, I see the following profile with
37.82% of cpu cycles spent in contention of pm_qos_lock:

-     37.82%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]          [k]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   - _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
      - 95.65% pm_qos_request
           menu_select
           cpuidle_idle_call
         - cpu_idle
              99.98% start_secondary

A better approach will be to cache the updated pm_qos target value so
reading it does not require lock acquisition as in the patch below.
With this patch the contention for pm_qos_lock is removed and I saw a
2.2X increase in throughput for my message passing workload.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Acked-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 00:50:59 -04:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_PM_QOS_PARAMS_H
#define _LINUX_PM_QOS_PARAMS_H
/* interface for the pm_qos_power infrastructure of the linux kernel.
*
* Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
*/
#include <linux/plist.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#define PM_QOS_RESERVED 0
#define PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY 1
#define PM_QOS_NETWORK_LATENCY 2
#define PM_QOS_NETWORK_THROUGHPUT 3
#define PM_QOS_NUM_CLASSES 4
#define PM_QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE -1
#define PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE (2000 * USEC_PER_SEC)
#define PM_QOS_NETWORK_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE (2000 * USEC_PER_SEC)
#define PM_QOS_NETWORK_THROUGHPUT_DEFAULT_VALUE 0
struct pm_qos_request_list {
struct plist_node list;
int pm_qos_class;
};
void pm_qos_add_request(struct pm_qos_request_list *l, int pm_qos_class, s32 value);
void pm_qos_update_request(struct pm_qos_request_list *pm_qos_req,
s32 new_value);
void pm_qos_remove_request(struct pm_qos_request_list *pm_qos_req);
int pm_qos_request(int pm_qos_class);
int pm_qos_add_notifier(int pm_qos_class, struct notifier_block *notifier);
int pm_qos_remove_notifier(int pm_qos_class, struct notifier_block *notifier);
int pm_qos_request_active(struct pm_qos_request_list *req);
#endif