2 * menu.c - the menu idle governor
4 * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
5 * Copyright (C) 2009 Intel Corporation
7 * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
9 * This code is licenced under the GPL version 2 as described
10 * in the COPYING file that acompanies the Linux Kernel.
13 #include <linux/kernel.h>
14 #include <linux/cpuidle.h>
15 #include <linux/pm_qos.h>
16 #include <linux/time.h>
17 #include <linux/ktime.h>
18 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
19 #include <linux/tick.h>
20 #include <linux/sched.h>
21 #include <linux/math64.h>
25 #define RESOLUTION 1024
27 #define MAX_INTERESTING 50000
28 #define STDDEV_THRESH 400
32 * Concepts and ideas behind the menu governor
34 * For the menu governor, there are 3 decision factors for picking a C
36 * 1) Energy break even point
37 * 2) Performance impact
38 * 3) Latency tolerance (from pmqos infrastructure)
39 * These these three factors are treated independently.
41 * Energy break even point
42 * -----------------------
43 * C state entry and exit have an energy cost, and a certain amount of time in
44 * the C state is required to actually break even on this cost. CPUIDLE
45 * provides us this duration in the "target_residency" field. So all that we
46 * need is a good prediction of how long we'll be idle. Like the traditional
47 * menu governor, we start with the actual known "next timer event" time.
49 * Since there are other source of wakeups (interrupts for example) than
50 * the next timer event, this estimation is rather optimistic. To get a
51 * more realistic estimate, a correction factor is applied to the estimate,
52 * that is based on historic behavior. For example, if in the past the actual
53 * duration always was 50% of the next timer tick, the correction factor will
56 * menu uses a running average for this correction factor, however it uses a
57 * set of factors, not just a single factor. This stems from the realization
58 * that the ratio is dependent on the order of magnitude of the expected
59 * duration; if we expect 500 milliseconds of idle time the likelihood of
60 * getting an interrupt very early is much higher than if we expect 50 micro
61 * seconds of idle time. A second independent factor that has big impact on
62 * the actual factor is if there is (disk) IO outstanding or not.
63 * (as a special twist, we consider every sleep longer than 50 milliseconds
64 * as perfect; there are no power gains for sleeping longer than this)
66 * For these two reasons we keep an array of 12 independent factors, that gets
67 * indexed based on the magnitude of the expected duration as well as the
68 * "is IO outstanding" property.
70 * Repeatable-interval-detector
71 * ----------------------------
72 * There are some cases where "next timer" is a completely unusable predictor:
73 * Those cases where the interval is fixed, for example due to hardware
74 * interrupt mitigation, but also due to fixed transfer rate devices such as
76 * For this, we use a different predictor: We track the duration of the last 8
77 * intervals and if the stand deviation of these 8 intervals is below a
78 * threshold value, we use the average of these intervals as prediction.
80 * Limiting Performance Impact
81 * ---------------------------
82 * C states, especially those with large exit latencies, can have a real
83 * noticeable impact on workloads, which is not acceptable for most sysadmins,
84 * and in addition, less performance has a power price of its own.
86 * As a general rule of thumb, menu assumes that the following heuristic
88 * The busier the system, the less impact of C states is acceptable
90 * This rule-of-thumb is implemented using a performance-multiplier:
91 * If the exit latency times the performance multiplier is longer than
92 * the predicted duration, the C state is not considered a candidate
93 * for selection due to a too high performance impact. So the higher
94 * this multiplier is, the longer we need to be idle to pick a deep C
95 * state, and thus the less likely a busy CPU will hit such a deep
98 * Two factors are used in determing this multiplier:
99 * a value of 10 is added for each point of "per cpu load average" we have.
100 * a value of 5 points is added for each process that is waiting for
102 * (these values are experimentally determined)
104 * The load average factor gives a longer term (few seconds) input to the
105 * decision, while the iowait value gives a cpu local instantanious input.
106 * The iowait factor may look low, but realize that this is also already
107 * represented in the system load average.
115 unsigned int expected_us
;
117 unsigned int exit_us
;
119 u64 correction_factor
[BUCKETS
];
120 u32 intervals
[INTERVALS
];
125 #define LOAD_INT(x) ((x) >> FSHIFT)
126 #define LOAD_FRAC(x) LOAD_INT(((x) & (FIXED_1-1)) * 100)
128 static int get_loadavg(void)
130 unsigned long this = this_cpu_load();
133 return LOAD_INT(this) * 10 + LOAD_FRAC(this) / 10;
136 static inline int which_bucket(unsigned int duration
)
141 * We keep two groups of stats; one with no
142 * IO pending, one without.
143 * This allows us to calculate
146 if (nr_iowait_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
155 if (duration
< 10000)
157 if (duration
< 100000)
163 * Return a multiplier for the exit latency that is intended
164 * to take performance requirements into account.
165 * The more performance critical we estimate the system
166 * to be, the higher this multiplier, and thus the higher
167 * the barrier to go to an expensive C state.
169 static inline int performance_multiplier(void)
173 /* for higher loadavg, we are more reluctant */
175 mult
+= 2 * get_loadavg();
177 /* for IO wait tasks (per cpu!) we add 5x each */
178 mult
+= 10 * nr_iowait_cpu(smp_processor_id());
183 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct menu_device
, menu_devices
);
185 static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_device
*dev
);
187 /* This implements DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST but avoids 64 bit division */
188 static u64
div_round64(u64 dividend
, u32 divisor
)
190 return div_u64(dividend
+ (divisor
/ 2), divisor
);
194 * Try detecting repeating patterns by keeping track of the last 8
195 * intervals, and checking if the standard deviation of that set
196 * of points is below a threshold. If it is... then use the
197 * average of these 8 points as the estimated value.
199 static void detect_repeating_patterns(struct menu_device
*data
)
203 uint64_t stddev
= 0; /* contains the square of the std deviation */
205 /* first calculate average and standard deviation of the past */
206 for (i
= 0; i
< INTERVALS
; i
++)
207 avg
+= data
->intervals
[i
];
208 avg
= avg
/ INTERVALS
;
210 /* if the avg is beyond the known next tick, it's worthless */
211 if (avg
> data
->expected_us
)
214 for (i
= 0; i
< INTERVALS
; i
++)
215 stddev
+= (data
->intervals
[i
] - avg
) *
216 (data
->intervals
[i
] - avg
);
218 stddev
= stddev
/ INTERVALS
;
221 * now.. if stddev is small.. then assume we have a
222 * repeating pattern and predict we keep doing this.
225 if (avg
&& stddev
< STDDEV_THRESH
)
226 data
->predicted_us
= avg
;
230 * menu_select - selects the next idle state to enter
233 static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
235 struct menu_device
*data
= &__get_cpu_var(menu_devices
);
236 int latency_req
= pm_qos_request(PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY
);
237 unsigned int power_usage
= -1;
242 if (data
->needs_update
) {
244 data
->needs_update
= 0;
247 data
->last_state_idx
= 0;
250 /* Special case when user has set very strict latency requirement */
251 if (unlikely(latency_req
== 0))
254 /* determine the expected residency time, round up */
255 t
= ktime_to_timespec(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length());
257 t
.tv_sec
* USEC_PER_SEC
+ t
.tv_nsec
/ NSEC_PER_USEC
;
260 data
->bucket
= which_bucket(data
->expected_us
);
262 multiplier
= performance_multiplier();
265 * if the correction factor is 0 (eg first time init or cpu hotplug
266 * etc), we actually want to start out with a unity factor.
268 if (data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
] == 0)
269 data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
] = RESOLUTION
* DECAY
;
271 /* Make sure to round up for half microseconds */
272 data
->predicted_us
= div_round64(data
->expected_us
* data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
],
275 detect_repeating_patterns(data
);
278 * We want to default to C1 (hlt), not to busy polling
279 * unless the timer is happening really really soon.
281 if (data
->expected_us
> 5)
282 data
->last_state_idx
= CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
;
285 * Find the idle state with the lowest power while satisfying
288 for (i
= CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
; i
< dev
->state_count
; i
++) {
289 struct cpuidle_state
*s
= &dev
->states
[i
];
291 if (s
->flags
& CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE
)
293 if (s
->target_residency
> data
->predicted_us
)
295 if (s
->exit_latency
> latency_req
)
297 if (s
->exit_latency
* multiplier
> data
->predicted_us
)
300 if (s
->power_usage
< power_usage
) {
301 power_usage
= s
->power_usage
;
302 data
->last_state_idx
= i
;
303 data
->exit_us
= s
->exit_latency
;
307 return data
->last_state_idx
;
311 * menu_reflect - records that data structures need update
314 * NOTE: it's important to be fast here because this operation will add to
315 * the overall exit latency.
317 static void menu_reflect(struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
319 struct menu_device
*data
= &__get_cpu_var(menu_devices
);
320 data
->needs_update
= 1;
324 * menu_update - attempts to guess what happened after entry
327 static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
329 struct menu_device
*data
= &__get_cpu_var(menu_devices
);
330 int last_idx
= data
->last_state_idx
;
331 unsigned int last_idle_us
= cpuidle_get_last_residency(dev
);
332 struct cpuidle_state
*target
= &dev
->states
[last_idx
];
333 unsigned int measured_us
;
337 * Ugh, this idle state doesn't support residency measurements, so we
338 * are basically lost in the dark. As a compromise, assume we slept
339 * for the whole expected time.
341 if (unlikely(!(target
->flags
& CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID
)))
342 last_idle_us
= data
->expected_us
;
345 measured_us
= last_idle_us
;
348 * We correct for the exit latency; we are assuming here that the
349 * exit latency happens after the event that we're interested in.
351 if (measured_us
> data
->exit_us
)
352 measured_us
-= data
->exit_us
;
355 /* update our correction ratio */
357 new_factor
= data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
]
358 * (DECAY
- 1) / DECAY
;
360 if (data
->expected_us
> 0 && measured_us
< MAX_INTERESTING
)
361 new_factor
+= RESOLUTION
* measured_us
/ data
->expected_us
;
364 * we were idle so long that we count it as a perfect
367 new_factor
+= RESOLUTION
;
370 * We don't want 0 as factor; we always want at least
371 * a tiny bit of estimated time.
376 data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
] = new_factor
;
378 /* update the repeating-pattern data */
379 data
->intervals
[data
->interval_ptr
++] = last_idle_us
;
380 if (data
->interval_ptr
>= INTERVALS
)
381 data
->interval_ptr
= 0;
385 * menu_enable_device - scans a CPU's states and does setup
388 static int menu_enable_device(struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
390 struct menu_device
*data
= &per_cpu(menu_devices
, dev
->cpu
);
392 memset(data
, 0, sizeof(struct menu_device
));
397 static struct cpuidle_governor menu_governor
= {
400 .enable
= menu_enable_device
,
401 .select
= menu_select
,
402 .reflect
= menu_reflect
,
403 .owner
= THIS_MODULE
,
407 * init_menu - initializes the governor
409 static int __init
init_menu(void)
411 return cpuidle_register_governor(&menu_governor
);
415 * exit_menu - exits the governor
417 static void __exit
exit_menu(void)
419 cpuidle_unregister_governor(&menu_governor
);
422 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
423 module_init(init_menu
);
424 module_exit(exit_menu
);