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Subject: RE: [RFC/RFT][PATCH v3 0/6] sched/cpuidle: Idle loop rework
Date:   Sat, 10 Mar 2018 23:43:02 -0800
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On 2018.03.10 15:55 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: 
>On Saturday, March 10, 2018 5:07:36 PM CET Doug Smythies wrote:
>> On 2018.03.10 01:00 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
... [snip] ...

> The information that they often spend more time than a tick
> period in state 0 in one go *is* relevant, though.
>
>
> That issue can be dealt with in a couple of ways and the patch below is a
> rather straightforward attempt to do that.  The idea, basically, is to discard
> the result of governor prediction if the tick has been stopped alread and
> the predicted idle duration is within the tick range.
>
> Please try it on top of the v3 and tell me if you see an improvement.

It seems pretty good so far.
See a new line added to the previous graph, "rjwv3plus".

http://fast.smythies.com/rjwv3plus_100.png

I'll do another 100% load on one CPU test overnight, this time with
a trace.

... Doug