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      cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local_clock() · e93e59ce
      Daniel Lezcano authored 
      The ktime_get() can have a non negligeable overhead, use local_clock()
instead.

In order to test the difference between ktime_get() and local_clock(),
a quick hack has been added to trigger, via debugfs, 10000 times a
call to ktime_get() and local_clock() and measure the elapsed time.

Then the average value, the min and max is computed for each call.

From userspace, the test above was called 100 times every 2 seconds.

So, ktime_get() and local_clock() have been called 1000000 times in
total.

The results are:

ktime_get():
============
 * average: 101 ns (stddev: 27.4)
 * maximum: 38313 ns
 * minimum: 65 ns

local_clock():
==============
 * average: 60 ns (stddev: 9.8)
 * maximum: 13487 ns
 * minimum: 46 ns

The local_clock() is faster and more stable.

Even if it is a drop in the ocean, changing the ktime_get() by the
local_clock() allows to save 80ns at idle time (entry + exit). And
in some circumstances, especially when there are several CPUs racing
for the clock access, we save tens of microseconds.

The idle duration resulting from a diff is converted from nanosec to
microsec. This could be done with integer division (div 1000) - which is
an expensive operation or by 10 bits shifting (div 1024) - which is fast
but unprecise.

The following table gives some results at the limits.

 ------------------------------------------
|   nsec   |   div(1000)   |   div(1024)   |
 ------------------------------------------
|   1e3    |        1 usec |      976 nsec |
 ------------------------------------------
|   1e6    |     1000 usec |      976 usec |
 ------------------------------------------
|   1e9    |  1000000 usec |   976562 usec |
 ------------------------------------------

There is a linear deviation of 2.34%. This loss of precision is acceptable
in the context of the resulting diff which is used for statistics. These
ones are processed to guess estimate an approximation of the duration of the
next idle period which ends up into an idle state selection. The selection
criteria takes into account the next duration based on large intervals,
represented by the idle state's target residency.

The 2^10 division is enough because the approximation regarding the 1e3
division is lost in all the approximations done for the next idle duration
computation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[ rjw: Subject ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      e93e59ce
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      Merge back earlier cpuidle changes for v4.7. · f0fb0dd0
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      f0fb0dd0
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      Merge branch 'cpuidle/4.7' of http://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux into tmp · b5ebbcdb
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored 
      Pull ARM cpuidle changes for v4.7 from Daniel Lezcano.

* 'cpuidle/4.7' of http://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux:
  drivers: firmware: psci: use const and __initconst for psci_cpuidle_ops
  soc: qcom: spm: Use const and __initconst for qcom_cpuidle_ops
  ARM: cpuidle: constify return value of arm_cpuidle_get_ops()
  ARM: cpuidle: add const qualifier to cpuidle_ops member in structures
      b5ebbcdb
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