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>
22 #include <linux/module.h>
25 * Please note when changing the tuning values:
26 * If (MAX_INTERESTING-1) * RESOLUTION > UINT_MAX, the result of
27 * a scaling operation multiplication may overflow on 32 bit platforms.
28 * In that case, #define RESOLUTION as ULL to get 64 bit result:
29 * #define RESOLUTION 1024ULL
31 * The default values do not overflow.
34 #define INTERVAL_SHIFT 3
35 #define INTERVALS (1UL << INTERVAL_SHIFT)
36 #define RESOLUTION 1024
38 #define MAX_INTERESTING 50000
42 * Concepts and ideas behind the menu governor
44 * For the menu governor, there are 3 decision factors for picking a C
46 * 1) Energy break even point
47 * 2) Performance impact
48 * 3) Latency tolerance (from pmqos infrastructure)
49 * These these three factors are treated independently.
51 * Energy break even point
52 * -----------------------
53 * C state entry and exit have an energy cost, and a certain amount of time in
54 * the C state is required to actually break even on this cost. CPUIDLE
55 * provides us this duration in the "target_residency" field. So all that we
56 * need is a good prediction of how long we'll be idle. Like the traditional
57 * menu governor, we start with the actual known "next timer event" time.
59 * Since there are other source of wakeups (interrupts for example) than
60 * the next timer event, this estimation is rather optimistic. To get a
61 * more realistic estimate, a correction factor is applied to the estimate,
62 * that is based on historic behavior. For example, if in the past the actual
63 * duration always was 50% of the next timer tick, the correction factor will
66 * menu uses a running average for this correction factor, however it uses a
67 * set of factors, not just a single factor. This stems from the realization
68 * that the ratio is dependent on the order of magnitude of the expected
69 * duration; if we expect 500 milliseconds of idle time the likelihood of
70 * getting an interrupt very early is much higher than if we expect 50 micro
71 * seconds of idle time. A second independent factor that has big impact on
72 * the actual factor is if there is (disk) IO outstanding or not.
73 * (as a special twist, we consider every sleep longer than 50 milliseconds
74 * as perfect; there are no power gains for sleeping longer than this)
76 * For these two reasons we keep an array of 12 independent factors, that gets
77 * indexed based on the magnitude of the expected duration as well as the
78 * "is IO outstanding" property.
80 * Repeatable-interval-detector
81 * ----------------------------
82 * There are some cases where "next timer" is a completely unusable predictor:
83 * Those cases where the interval is fixed, for example due to hardware
84 * interrupt mitigation, but also due to fixed transfer rate devices such as
86 * For this, we use a different predictor: We track the duration of the last 8
87 * intervals and if the stand deviation of these 8 intervals is below a
88 * threshold value, we use the average of these intervals as prediction.
90 * Limiting Performance Impact
91 * ---------------------------
92 * C states, especially those with large exit latencies, can have a real
93 * noticeable impact on workloads, which is not acceptable for most sysadmins,
94 * and in addition, less performance has a power price of its own.
96 * As a general rule of thumb, menu assumes that the following heuristic
98 * The busier the system, the less impact of C states is acceptable
100 * This rule-of-thumb is implemented using a performance-multiplier:
101 * If the exit latency times the performance multiplier is longer than
102 * the predicted duration, the C state is not considered a candidate
103 * for selection due to a too high performance impact. So the higher
104 * this multiplier is, the longer we need to be idle to pick a deep C
105 * state, and thus the less likely a busy CPU will hit such a deep
108 * Two factors are used in determing this multiplier:
109 * a value of 10 is added for each point of "per cpu load average" we have.
110 * a value of 5 points is added for each process that is waiting for
112 * (these values are experimentally determined)
114 * The load average factor gives a longer term (few seconds) input to the
115 * decision, while the iowait value gives a cpu local instantanious input.
116 * The iowait factor may look low, but realize that this is also already
117 * represented in the system load average.
125 unsigned int next_timer_us
;
126 unsigned int predicted_us
;
128 unsigned int correction_factor
[BUCKETS
];
129 unsigned int intervals
[INTERVALS
];
134 #define LOAD_INT(x) ((x) >> FSHIFT)
135 #define LOAD_FRAC(x) LOAD_INT(((x) & (FIXED_1-1)) * 100)
137 static inline int get_loadavg(unsigned long load
)
139 return LOAD_INT(load
) * 10 + LOAD_FRAC(load
) / 10;
142 static inline int which_bucket(unsigned int duration
, unsigned long nr_iowaiters
)
147 * We keep two groups of stats; one with no
148 * IO pending, one without.
149 * This allows us to calculate
161 if (duration
< 10000)
163 if (duration
< 100000)
169 * Return a multiplier for the exit latency that is intended
170 * to take performance requirements into account.
171 * The more performance critical we estimate the system
172 * to be, the higher this multiplier, and thus the higher
173 * the barrier to go to an expensive C state.
175 static inline int performance_multiplier(unsigned long nr_iowaiters
, unsigned long load
)
179 /* for higher loadavg, we are more reluctant */
181 mult
+= 2 * get_loadavg(load
);
183 /* for IO wait tasks (per cpu!) we add 5x each */
184 mult
+= 10 * nr_iowaiters
;
189 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct menu_device
, menu_devices
);
191 static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_driver
*drv
, struct cpuidle_device
*dev
);
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 unsigned int get_typical_interval(struct menu_device
*data
)
202 unsigned int max
, thresh
, avg
;
203 uint64_t sum
, variance
;
205 thresh
= UINT_MAX
; /* Discard outliers above this value */
209 /* First calculate the average of past intervals */
213 for (i
= 0; i
< INTERVALS
; i
++) {
214 unsigned int value
= data
->intervals
[i
];
215 if (value
<= thresh
) {
222 if (divisor
== INTERVALS
)
223 avg
= sum
>> INTERVAL_SHIFT
;
225 avg
= div_u64(sum
, divisor
);
227 /* Then try to determine variance */
229 for (i
= 0; i
< INTERVALS
; i
++) {
230 unsigned int value
= data
->intervals
[i
];
231 if (value
<= thresh
) {
232 int64_t diff
= (int64_t)value
- avg
;
233 variance
+= diff
* diff
;
236 if (divisor
== INTERVALS
)
237 variance
>>= INTERVAL_SHIFT
;
239 do_div(variance
, divisor
);
242 * The typical interval is obtained when standard deviation is
243 * small (stddev <= 20 us, variance <= 400 us^2) or standard
244 * deviation is small compared to the average interval (avg >
245 * 6*stddev, avg^2 > 36*variance). The average is smaller than
246 * UINT_MAX aka U32_MAX, so computing its square does not
247 * overflow a u64. We simply reject this candidate average if
248 * the standard deviation is greater than 715 s (which is
251 * Use this result only if there is no timer to wake us up sooner.
253 if (likely(variance
<= U64_MAX
/36)) {
254 if ((((u64
)avg
*avg
> variance
*36) && (divisor
* 4 >= INTERVALS
* 3))
255 || variance
<= 400) {
261 * If we have outliers to the upside in our distribution, discard
262 * those by setting the threshold to exclude these outliers, then
263 * calculate the average and standard deviation again. Once we get
264 * down to the bottom 3/4 of our samples, stop excluding samples.
266 * This can deal with workloads that have long pauses interspersed
267 * with sporadic activity with a bunch of short pauses.
269 if ((divisor
* 4) <= INTERVALS
* 3)
277 * menu_select - selects the next idle state to enter
278 * @drv: cpuidle driver containing state data
281 static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver
*drv
, struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
283 struct menu_device
*data
= this_cpu_ptr(&menu_devices
);
284 int latency_req
= pm_qos_request(PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY
);
286 unsigned int interactivity_req
;
287 unsigned int expected_interval
;
288 unsigned long nr_iowaiters
, cpu_load
;
290 if (data
->needs_update
) {
291 menu_update(drv
, dev
);
292 data
->needs_update
= 0;
295 /* Special case when user has set very strict latency requirement */
296 if (unlikely(latency_req
== 0))
299 /* determine the expected residency time, round up */
300 data
->next_timer_us
= ktime_to_us(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length());
302 get_iowait_load(&nr_iowaiters
, &cpu_load
);
303 data
->bucket
= which_bucket(data
->next_timer_us
, nr_iowaiters
);
306 * Force the result of multiplication to be 64 bits even if both
307 * operands are 32 bits.
308 * Make sure to round up for half microseconds.
310 data
->predicted_us
= DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL((uint64_t)data
->next_timer_us
*
311 data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
],
314 expected_interval
= get_typical_interval(data
);
315 expected_interval
= min(expected_interval
, data
->next_timer_us
);
317 if (CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
> 0) {
318 struct cpuidle_state
*s
= &drv
->states
[CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
];
319 unsigned int polling_threshold
;
322 * We want to default to C1 (hlt), not to busy polling
323 * unless the timer is happening really really soon, or
324 * C1's exit latency exceeds the user configured limit.
326 polling_threshold
= max_t(unsigned int, 20, s
->target_residency
);
327 if (data
->next_timer_us
> polling_threshold
&&
328 latency_req
> s
->exit_latency
&& !s
->disabled
&&
329 !dev
->states_usage
[CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
].disable
)
330 data
->last_state_idx
= CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
;
332 data
->last_state_idx
= CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
- 1;
334 data
->last_state_idx
= CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
;
338 * Use the lowest expected idle interval to pick the idle state.
340 data
->predicted_us
= min(data
->predicted_us
, expected_interval
);
343 * Use the performance multiplier and the user-configurable
344 * latency_req to determine the maximum exit latency.
346 interactivity_req
= data
->predicted_us
/ performance_multiplier(nr_iowaiters
, cpu_load
);
347 if (latency_req
> interactivity_req
)
348 latency_req
= interactivity_req
;
351 * Find the idle state with the lowest power while satisfying
354 for (i
= data
->last_state_idx
+ 1; i
< drv
->state_count
; i
++) {
355 struct cpuidle_state
*s
= &drv
->states
[i
];
356 struct cpuidle_state_usage
*su
= &dev
->states_usage
[i
];
358 if (s
->disabled
|| su
->disable
)
360 if (s
->target_residency
> data
->predicted_us
)
362 if (s
->exit_latency
> latency_req
)
365 data
->last_state_idx
= i
;
368 return data
->last_state_idx
;
372 * menu_reflect - records that data structures need update
374 * @index: the index of actual entered state
376 * NOTE: it's important to be fast here because this operation will add to
377 * the overall exit latency.
379 static void menu_reflect(struct cpuidle_device
*dev
, int index
)
381 struct menu_device
*data
= this_cpu_ptr(&menu_devices
);
383 data
->last_state_idx
= index
;
384 data
->needs_update
= 1;
388 * menu_update - attempts to guess what happened after entry
389 * @drv: cpuidle driver containing state data
392 static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_driver
*drv
, struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
394 struct menu_device
*data
= this_cpu_ptr(&menu_devices
);
395 int last_idx
= data
->last_state_idx
;
396 struct cpuidle_state
*target
= &drv
->states
[last_idx
];
397 unsigned int measured_us
;
398 unsigned int new_factor
;
401 * Try to figure out how much time passed between entry to low
402 * power state and occurrence of the wakeup event.
404 * If the entered idle state didn't support residency measurements,
405 * we use them anyway if they are short, and if long,
406 * truncate to the whole expected time.
408 * Any measured amount of time will include the exit latency.
409 * Since we are interested in when the wakeup begun, not when it
410 * was completed, we must subtract the exit latency. However, if
411 * the measured amount of time is less than the exit latency,
412 * assume the state was never reached and the exit latency is 0.
416 measured_us
= cpuidle_get_last_residency(dev
);
418 /* Deduct exit latency */
419 if (measured_us
> 2 * target
->exit_latency
)
420 measured_us
-= target
->exit_latency
;
424 /* Make sure our coefficients do not exceed unity */
425 if (measured_us
> data
->next_timer_us
)
426 measured_us
= data
->next_timer_us
;
428 /* Update our correction ratio */
429 new_factor
= data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
];
430 new_factor
-= new_factor
/ DECAY
;
432 if (data
->next_timer_us
> 0 && measured_us
< MAX_INTERESTING
)
433 new_factor
+= RESOLUTION
* measured_us
/ data
->next_timer_us
;
436 * we were idle so long that we count it as a perfect
439 new_factor
+= RESOLUTION
;
442 * We don't want 0 as factor; we always want at least
443 * a tiny bit of estimated time. Fortunately, due to rounding,
444 * new_factor will stay nonzero regardless of measured_us values
445 * and the compiler can eliminate this test as long as DECAY > 1.
447 if (DECAY
== 1 && unlikely(new_factor
== 0))
450 data
->correction_factor
[data
->bucket
] = new_factor
;
452 /* update the repeating-pattern data */
453 data
->intervals
[data
->interval_ptr
++] = measured_us
;
454 if (data
->interval_ptr
>= INTERVALS
)
455 data
->interval_ptr
= 0;
459 * menu_enable_device - scans a CPU's states and does setup
460 * @drv: cpuidle driver
463 static int menu_enable_device(struct cpuidle_driver
*drv
,
464 struct cpuidle_device
*dev
)
466 struct menu_device
*data
= &per_cpu(menu_devices
, dev
->cpu
);
469 memset(data
, 0, sizeof(struct menu_device
));
472 * if the correction factor is 0 (eg first time init or cpu hotplug
473 * etc), we actually want to start out with a unity factor.
475 for(i
= 0; i
< BUCKETS
; i
++)
476 data
->correction_factor
[i
] = RESOLUTION
* DECAY
;
481 static struct cpuidle_governor menu_governor
= {
484 .enable
= menu_enable_device
,
485 .select
= menu_select
,
486 .reflect
= menu_reflect
,
487 .owner
= THIS_MODULE
,
491 * init_menu - initializes the governor
493 static int __init
init_menu(void)
495 return cpuidle_register_governor(&menu_governor
);
498 postcore_initcall(init_menu
);