Re: [PATCH V2] tick: Make sleep length calculation more accurate

[Frederic Weisbecker]

2013/10/2 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> The sleep_length is computed in the tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick function but it
> is used later in the code with in between the local irq enabled.
>
> cpu_idle_loop
>   tick_nohz_idle_enter         [ exits with local irq enabled ]
>    __tick_nohz_idle_enter
>      tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick
>   ...
>
>   arch_cpu_idle
>      menu_select               [ uses here 'sleep_length' ]
>   ...
>
> Between the computation of the sleep length and its usage, some interrupts
> may occur, making the sleep length shorter than actually it is because of the
> interrupt processing

So, do you mean that the ts->sleep_length would return a value that is too long
given that the CPU already spent some time to service the irqs since we computed
the sleep length in tick_nohz_idle_enter()?

But then tick_nohz_irq_exit() should take care of that as it calls
again tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick().
So I'm a bit confused.

> or different if the timer itself expired.

Same here, if the timer expired, it triggers an interrupt which can do
two things:

1) reprogram a new timer and this recompute sleep_length
2) set_need_resched() and then exit the idle loop, so arch_cpu_idle() won't even
be called. Or the timer interrupts hlt, but then menu_select() was
called before.

So I probably missed something here.

Thanks.
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