We found Cx states time abnormal in our some of machines which have 16
LCPUs, the C0 take too many time while system is really idle when kernel
enabled tickless and highres. powertop output is below:
PowerTOP version 1.9 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) (40.5%) 2.53 Ghz 0.0%
C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 2.53 Ghz 0.0%
C2 128.8ms (59.5%) 2.40 Ghz 0.0%
1.60 Ghz 100.0%
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 4.7 interval: 20.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available
Top causes for wakeups:
41.4% ( 24.9) <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt
20.2% ( 12.2) <kernel core> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status
(rh_timer_func)
After tacking detailed for this issue, Yakui and I find it is due to 24
bit PM timer overflows when some of cpu sleep more than 4 seconds. With
tickless kernel, the CPU want to sleep as much as possible when system
idle. But the Cx sleep time are recorded by pmtimer which length is
determined by BIOS. The current Cx time was gotten in the following
function from driver/acpi/processor_idle.c:
static inline u32 ticks_elapsed(u32 t1, u32 t2)
{
if (t2 >= t1)
return (t2 - t1);
else if (!(acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_32BIT_TIMER))
return (((0x00FFFFFF - t1) + t2) & 0x00FFFFFF);
else
return ((0xFFFFFFFF - t1) + t2);
}
If pmtimer is 24 bits and it take 5 seconds from t1 to t2, in above
function, just about 1 seconds ticks was recorded. So the Cx time will be
reduced about 4 seconds. and this is why we see above powertop output.
To resolve this problem, Yakui and I use ktime_get() to record the Cx
states time instead of PM timer as the following patch. the patch was
tested with i386/x86_64 modes on several platforms.
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yakui.zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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