Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751367AbdGRDXl (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:23:41 -0400 Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.43]:54341 "EHLO mga05.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332AbdGRDXk (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:23:40 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.40,376,1496127600"; d="scan'208";a="126287806" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/11] Create fast idle path for short idle periods To: Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Andi Kleen Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Christoph Lameter , Aubrey Li , tglx@linutronix.de, len.brown@intel.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org References: <20170713083649.febfflfl5hafkko5@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <16e12e23-6b28-f174-7c4b-4d719225cd3b@linux.intel.com> <20170713145311.z4zxlyd2dospeoqg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <4a577bd6-20b1-abb6-2153-f9870f0a721e@linux.intel.com> <20170713182820.sn3fjitnd3mca27p@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <31170ac6-9db1-f0b8-4841-f1661c8ed6e1@linux.intel.com> <20170714153818.pjauqxebxyhs6ljp@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170714155356.GH3441@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <20170714160648.tg2u6eo2id6gmnjz@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170714162619.GJ3441@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <20170717192309.ubn5muvc3u7htuaw@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> From: "Li, Aubrey" Message-ID: <22aa93ea-6867-fb18-eb36-20ea15787d18@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:23:36 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 17 On 2017/7/18 3:48, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 7/17/2017 12:23 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> Of course, this all assumes a Gaussian distribution to begin with, if we >> get bimodal (or worse) distributions we can still get it wrong. To fix >> that, we'd need to do something better than what we currently have. >> > > fwiw some time ago I made a chart for predicted vs actual so you can sort > of judge the distribution of things visually > > http://git.fenrus.org/tmp/linux2.png > > This does not look like a Gaussian, does it? I mean abs(expected - actual). Thanks, -Aubrey