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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2009-09-21 20:04:08 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 10:17:45 -0400
commit69d25870f20c4b2563304f2b79c5300dd60a067e (patch)
treecda2b2d65c1be95420c6ba92ae2d40fade4232c4 /include/linux/sched.h
parent45d80eea87c9f8292d2d33173d6866c0ec57238a (diff)
cpuidle: fix the menu governor to boost IO performance
Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency and performance impact. The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server systems. To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results: (benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll") no cstates current linux new algorithm 1 disk 107 Mb/s 85 Mb/s 105 Mb/s 2 disks 215 Mb/s 123 Mb/s 209 Mb/s 12 disks 590 Mb/s 320 Mb/s 585 Mb/s In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our measurement&diagnostics team. Obviously a small percentage more power was used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance. While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code instead. [changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback, folded menu-tng into menu.c] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 17e9a8e9a51d..97b10da0a3ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ extern int nr_processes(void);
140extern unsigned long nr_running(void); 140extern unsigned long nr_running(void);
141extern unsigned long nr_uninterruptible(void); 141extern unsigned long nr_uninterruptible(void);
142extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void); 142extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void);
143extern unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(void);
144extern unsigned long this_cpu_load(void);
145
146
143extern void calc_global_load(void); 147extern void calc_global_load(void);
144extern u64 cpu_nr_migrations(int cpu); 148extern u64 cpu_nr_migrations(int cpu);
145 149