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authorVenki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2008-02-29 10:24:32 -0800
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-03-26 00:58:19 -0400
commit8e92b6605da989c0aa8ff7e33306f36f0efd957c (patch)
treeaafbc4628b907f4134ad91db9b160941f246dfcf /drivers/cpuidle
parent8b78cf602fd3bd97c0080edd22fe8fd5d0fa7832 (diff)
downloadlinux-8e92b6605da989c0aa8ff7e33306f36f0efd957c.tar.gz
cpuidle: fix 100% C0 statistics regression
commit 9b12e18cdc1553de62d931e73443c806347cd974
'ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting'
was implicated in a 100% C0 idle regression.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10076

It pointed out a potential problem where the menu governor
may get confused by the C-state residency time from poll
idle or C1 idle, where this timing info is not accurate.
This inaccuracy is due to interrupts being handled
before we account for C-state exit.

Do not mark TIME_VALID for CO poll state.
Mark C1 time as valid only with the MWAIT (CSTATE_FFH) entry method.

This makes governors use the timing information only when it is correct and
eliminates any wrong policy decisions that may result from invalid timing
information.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpuidle')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index d42deb310ac7..fc555a90bb21 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static void poll_idle_init(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	state->exit_latency = 0;
 	state->target_residency = 0;
 	state->power_usage = -1;
-	state->flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLL | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID;
+	state->flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLL;
 	state->enter = poll_idle;
 }
 #else