On Thursday, February 10, 2011, Tim Chen wrote:
> I noticed that before entering idle state, the menu idle governor will
> look up the current pm_qos value according to the list of qos request
> received. This look up currently needs the acquisition of a lock to go
> down a list of qos requests to find the qos value, slowing down the
> entrance into idle state due to contention by multiple cpus to traverse
> this list. The contention is severe when there are a lot of cpus waking
> and going into idle. For example, for a simple workload that has 32
> pair of processes ping ponging messages to each other, where 64 cores
> cores are active in test system, I see the following profile:
>
> - 37.82% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
> _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> - _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> - 95.65% pm_qos_request
> menu_select
> cpuidle_idle_call
> - cpu_idle
> 99.98% start_secondary
>
> Perhaps a better approach will be to cache the updated pm_qos value so
> reading it does not require lock acquisition as in the patch below.
>
> Tim
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/include/linux/pm_qos_params.h b/include/linux/pm_qos_params.h
> index 77cbddb..a7d87f9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pm_qos_params.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pm_qos_params.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
> #define PM_QOS_NUM_CLASSES 4
> #define PM_QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE -1
>
> +#define PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE (2000 * USEC_PER_SEC)
> +#define PM_QOS_NETWORK_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE (2000 * USEC_PER_SEC)
> +#define PM_QOS_NETWORK_THROUGHPUT_DEFAULT_VALUE 0
> +
> struct pm_qos_request_list {
> struct plist_node list;
> int pm_qos_class;
> diff --git a/kernel/pm_qos_params.c b/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
> index aeaa7f8..b6310d1 100644
> --- a/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
> +++ b/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ struct pm_qos_object {
> struct blocking_notifier_head *notifiers;
> struct miscdevice pm_qos_power_miscdev;
> char *name;
> + s32 value;
> s32 default_value;
> enum pm_qos_type type;
> };
> @@ -70,7 +71,8 @@ static struct pm_qos_object cpu_dma_pm_qos = {
> .requests = PLIST_HEAD_INIT(cpu_dma_pm_qos.requests, pm_qos_lock),
> .notifiers = &cpu_dma_lat_notifier,
> .name = "cpu_dma_latency",
> - .default_value = 2000 * USEC_PER_SEC,
> + .value = PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE,
> + .default_value = PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE,
> .type = PM_QOS_MIN,
> };
>
> @@ -79,7 +81,8 @@ static struct pm_qos_object network_lat_pm_qos = {
> .requests = PLIST_HEAD_INIT(network_lat_pm_qos.requests, pm_qos_lock),
> .notifiers = &network_lat_notifier,
> .name = "network_latency",
> - .default_value = 2000 * USEC_PER_SEC,
> + .value = PM_QOS_NETWORK_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE,
> + .default_value = PM_QOS_NETWORK_LAT_DEFAULT_VALUE,
> .type = PM_QOS_MIN
> };
>
> @@ -89,7 +92,8 @@ static struct pm_qos_object network_throughput_pm_qos = {
> .requests = PLIST_HEAD_INIT(network_throughput_pm_qos.requests, pm_qos_lock),
> .notifiers = &network_throughput_notifier,
> .name = "network_throughput",
> - .default_value = 0,
> + .value = PM_QOS_NETWORK_THROUGHPUT_DEFAULT_VALUE,
> + .default_value = PM_QOS_NETWORK_THROUGHPUT_DEFAULT_VALUE,
> .type = PM_QOS_MAX,
> };
>
> @@ -132,6 +136,16 @@ static inline int pm_qos_get_value(struct pm_qos_object *o)
> }
> }
>
> +static inline s32 pm_qos_read_value(struct pm_qos_object *o)
> +{
> + return o->value;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int pm_qos_set_value(struct pm_qos_object *o, s32 value)
> +{
> + o->value = value;
> +}
This requires a fixup, the above function is supposed to return an int.
Also, please add a comment about the requisite 32-bitness as suggested by James.
Thanks,
Rafael
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