Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] cpuidle: teo: Introduce util-awareness

[Lukasz Luba]

Hi Vincent,

On 5/28/24 10:29, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm quite late on this thread but this patchset creates a major
> regression for psci cpuidle driver when using the OSI mode (OS
> initiated mode).  In such a case, cpuidle driver takes care only of
> CPUs power state and the deeper C-states ,which includes cluster and
> other power domains, are handled with power domain framework. In such
> configuration ,cpuidle has only 2 c-states : WFI and cpu off states
> and others states that include the clusters, are managed by genpd and
> its governor.
>
> This patch selects cpuidle c-state N-1 as soon as the utilization is
> above CPU capacity / 64 which means at most a level of 16 on the big
> core but can be as low as 4 on little cores. These levels are very low
> and the main result is that as soon as there is very little activity
> on a CPU, cpuidle always selects WFI states whatever the estimated
> sleep duration and which prevents any deeper states. Another effect is
> that it also keeps the tick firing every 1ms in my case.

Thanks for reporting this.
Could you add what regression it's causing, please?
Performance or higher power?
Do you have some handy numbers, so we can see the problem size?

> IMO, we should at least increase the utilization level

Something worth to discuss, or make it configurable even.

Regards,
Lukasz

> Regards,
> Vincent