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    cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure in general case · e11538d1
    Youquan Song authored
    The prediction for future is difficult and when the cpuidle governor prediction
    fails and govenor possibly choose the shallower C-state than it should. How to
    quickly notice and find the failure becomes important for power saving.
    
    The patch extends to general case that prediction logic get a small predicted
    residency, so it choose a shallow C-state though the expected residency is large
    . Once the prediction will be fail, the CPU will keep staying at shallow C-state
    for a long time. Acutally, the CPU has change enter into deep C-state.
    So when the expected residency is long enough but governor choose a shallow
    C-state, an timer will be added in order to monitor if the prediction failure.
    
    When C-state is waken up prior to the adding timer, the timer will be cancelled
    initiatively. When the timer is triggered and menu governor will quickly notice
    prediction failure and re-evaluates deeper C-states possibility.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYouquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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