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Date:   Sun, 7 Nov 2021 16:56:16 +0100
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To:     Norbert <nbrtt01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Performance regression: thread wakeup time (latency) increased
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Hi Norbert,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:01:32AM -0700, Norbert wrote:
> 
> On the thought that it might enter deeper idle/wait/sleep states:
> 
> The benchmark executes this test in a quite tight loop, except that so far
> it waited 1000 ns (with a mix of pause and rdtsc) before calling futex-wake,
> to make sure the other thread fully enters the futex-wait without taking any
> shortcuts.
> 
> Except when this "prepare time" is reduced to less than even 350 ns or so,
> the timings remain the same (they go up before they start going down).
> Surely in this situation the thread is at least not supposed to enter deeper
> states for such short waiting times.

Is it possible for you to share this benchmark so that I can try to reproduce?

Thanks!