This patchset enables the cpuidle-haltpoll driver and its namesake governor on arm64. This is specifically interesting for KVM guests by reducing IPC latencies. Comparing idle switching latencies on an arm64 KVM guest with perf bench sched pipe: usecs/op %stdev no haltpoll (baseline) 13.48 +- 5.19% with haltpoll 6.84 +- 22.07% No change in performance for a similar test on x86: usecs/op %stdev haltpoll w/ cpu_relax() (baseline) 4.75 +- 1.76% haltpoll w/ smp_cond_load_relaxed() 4.78 +- 2.31% Both sets of tests were on otherwise idle systems with guest VCPUs pinned to specific PCPUs. One reason for the higher stdev on arm64 is that trapping of the WFE instruction by the host KVM is contingent on the number of tasks on the runqueue. The patch series is organized in three parts: - patch 1, reorganizes the poll_idle() loop, switching to smp_cond_load_relaxed() in the polling loop. Relatedly patches 2, 3 mangle the config option ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX, renaming it to ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL. - patches 4-6 reorganize the haltpoll selection and init logic to allow architecture code to select it. - and finally, patches 7-10 add the bits for arm64 support. What is still missing: this series largely completes the haltpoll side of functionality for arm64. There are, however, a few related areas that still need to be threshed out: - WFET support: WFE on arm64 does not guarantee that poll_idle() would terminate in halt_poll_ns. Using WFET would address this. - KVM_NO_POLL support on arm64 - KVM TWED support on arm64: allow the host to limit time spent in WFE. Changelog: v6: - reordered the patches to keep poll_idle() and ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL changes together (comment from Christoph Lameter) - threshes out the commit messages a bit more (comments from Christoph Lameter, Sudeep Holla) - also rework selection of cpuidle-haltpoll. Now selected based on the architectural selection of ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL. - moved back to arch_haltpoll_want() (comment from Joao Martins) Also, arch_haltpoll_want() now takes the force parameter and is now responsible for the complete selection (or not) of haltpoll. - fixes the build breakage on i386 - fixes the cpuidle-haltpoll module breakage on arm64 (comment from Tomohiro Misono, Haris Okanovic) v5: - rework the poll_idle() loop around smp_cond_load_relaxed() (review comment from Tomohiro Misono.) - also rework selection of cpuidle-haltpoll. Now selected based on the architectural selection of ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL. - arch_haltpoll_supported() (renamed from arch_haltpoll_want()) on arm64 now depends on the event-stream being enabled. - limit POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT on arm64 (review comment from Haris Okanovic) - ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX is now renamed to ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL. v4 changes from v3: - change 7/8 per Rafael input: drop the parens and use ret for the final check - add 8/8 which renames the guard for building poll_state v3 changes from v2: - fix 1/7 per Petr Mladek - remove ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX from arch/x86/Kconfig - add Ack-by from Rafael Wysocki on 2/7 v2 changes from v1: - added patch 7 where we change cpu_relax with smp_cond_load_relaxed per PeterZ (this improves by 50% at least the CPU cycles consumed in the tests above: 10,716,881,137 now vs 14,503,014,257 before) - removed the ifdef from patch 1 per RafaelW Please review. Ankur Arora (5): cpuidle: rename ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX to ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL cpuidle-haltpoll: condition on ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL arm64: idle: export arch_cpu_idle arm64: support cpuidle-haltpoll cpuidle/poll_state: limit POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT on arm64 Joao Martins (4): Kconfig: move ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL to arch/Kconfig cpuidle-haltpoll: define arch_haltpoll_want() governors/haltpoll: drop kvm_para_available() check arm64: define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG Mihai Carabas (1): cpuidle/poll_state: poll via smp_cond_load_relaxed() arch/Kconfig | 3 +++ arch/arm64/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h | 9 +++++++++ arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 ++ arch/arm64/kernel/cpuidle.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/idle.c | 1 + arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 ++--- arch/x86/include/asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 13 +++++++++++++ drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 4 ++-- drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig | 5 ++--- drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-haltpoll.c | 12 +----------- drivers/cpuidle/governors/haltpoll.c | 6 +----- drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- drivers/idle/Kconfig | 1 + include/linux/cpuidle.h | 2 +- include/linux/cpuidle_haltpoll.h | 5 +++++ 18 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h -- 2.43.5