Commit f2ac428e authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: add polling idle for shared processor guests

For shared processor guests (e.g., KVM), add an idle polling mode rather
than immediately returning to the hypervisor when the guest CPU goes
idle.

Test setup is a 2 socket POWER9 with 4 guests running, each with vCPUs
equal to 1/2 of real of CPUs. Saturated each guest with tbench. Using
polling idle gives about 1.4x throughput.

Kernel compile speed was not changed significantly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent ced54c08
......@@ -174,11 +174,17 @@ static struct cpuidle_state dedicated_states[] = {
* States for shared partition case.
*/
static struct cpuidle_state shared_states[] = {
{ /* Snooze */
.name = "snooze",
.desc = "snooze",
.exit_latency = 0,
.target_residency = 0,
.enter = &snooze_loop },
{ /* Shared Cede */
.name = "Shared Cede",
.desc = "Shared Cede",
.exit_latency = 0,
.target_residency = 0,
.exit_latency = 10,
.target_residency = 100,
.enter = &shared_cede_loop },
};
......
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