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authorVenki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2008-01-30 07:30:04 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 07:30:04 -0500
commit6378ddb592158db4b42197f1bc8666228800e379 (patch)
treef9b1e671dfd12fb221f6140dd231ccb14cd9f27e /kernel/time
parentbbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 (diff)
time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime
Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained. tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time in a fine grained manner. But, it is not handling the time spent in interrupts fully. Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated. This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the frequency. The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming soon. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c70
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 49e12f6a4bab..63f24b550695 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -143,6 +143,44 @@ void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void)
143 local_irq_restore(flags); 143 local_irq_restore(flags);
144} 144}
145 145
146void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu)
147{
148 struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
149
150 if (ts->idle_active) {
151 ktime_t now, delta;
152 now = ktime_get();
153 delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
154 ts->idle_lastupdate = now;
155 ts->idle_sleeptime = ktime_add(ts->idle_sleeptime, delta);
156 ts->idle_active = 0;
157 }
158}
159
160static ktime_t tick_nohz_start_idle(int cpu)
161{
162 struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
163 ktime_t now, delta;
164
165 now = ktime_get();
166 if (ts->idle_active) {
167 delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
168 ts->idle_lastupdate = now;
169 ts->idle_sleeptime = ktime_add(ts->idle_sleeptime, delta);
170 }
171 ts->idle_entrytime = now;
172 ts->idle_active = 1;
173 return now;
174}
175
176u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
177{
178 struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
179
180 *last_update_time = ktime_to_us(ts->idle_lastupdate);
181 return ktime_to_us(ts->idle_sleeptime);
182}
183
146/** 184/**
147 * tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick - stop the idle tick from the idle task 185 * tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick - stop the idle tick from the idle task
148 * 186 *
@@ -155,13 +193,14 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
155 unsigned long seq, last_jiffies, next_jiffies, delta_jiffies, flags; 193 unsigned long seq, last_jiffies, next_jiffies, delta_jiffies, flags;
156 unsigned long rt_jiffies; 194 unsigned long rt_jiffies;
157 struct tick_sched *ts; 195 struct tick_sched *ts;
158 ktime_t last_update, expires, now, delta; 196 ktime_t last_update, expires, now;
159 struct clock_event_device *dev = __get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_device).evtdev; 197 struct clock_event_device *dev = __get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_device).evtdev;
160 int cpu; 198 int cpu;
161 199
162 local_irq_save(flags); 200 local_irq_save(flags);
163 201
164 cpu = smp_processor_id(); 202 cpu = smp_processor_id();
203 now = tick_nohz_start_idle(cpu);
165 ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); 204 ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
166 205
167 /* 206 /*
@@ -193,19 +232,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
193 } 232 }
194 } 233 }
195 234
196 now = ktime_get();
197 /*
198 * When called from irq_exit we need to account the idle sleep time
199 * correctly.
200 */
201 if (ts->tick_stopped) {
202 delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
203 ts->idle_sleeptime = ktime_add(ts->idle_sleeptime, delta);
204 }
205
206 ts->idle_entrytime = now;
207 ts->idle_calls++; 235 ts->idle_calls++;
208
209 /* Read jiffies and the time when jiffies were updated last */ 236 /* Read jiffies and the time when jiffies were updated last */
210 do { 237 do {
211 seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock); 238 seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
@@ -337,23 +364,22 @@ void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void)
337 int cpu = smp_processor_id(); 364 int cpu = smp_processor_id();
338 struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); 365 struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
339 unsigned long ticks; 366 unsigned long ticks;
340 ktime_t now, delta; 367 ktime_t now;
341 368
342 if (!ts->tick_stopped) 369 local_irq_disable();
370 tick_nohz_stop_idle(cpu);
371
372 if (!ts->tick_stopped) {
373 local_irq_enable();
343 return; 374 return;
375 }
344 376
345 /* Update jiffies first */ 377 /* Update jiffies first */
346 now = ktime_get();
347
348 local_irq_disable();
349 select_nohz_load_balancer(0); 378 select_nohz_load_balancer(0);
379 now = ktime_get();
350 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); 380 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
351 cpu_clear(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask); 381 cpu_clear(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
352 382
353 /* Account the idle time */
354 delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
355 ts->idle_sleeptime = ktime_add(ts->idle_sleeptime, delta);
356
357 /* 383 /*
358 * We stopped the tick in idle. Update process times would miss the 384 * We stopped the tick in idle. Update process times would miss the
359 * time we slept as update_process_times does only a 1 tick 385 * time we slept as update_process_times does only a 1 tick