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| author | Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> | 2008-01-30 13:30:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-01-30 13:30:04 +0100 |
| commit | 6378ddb592158db4b42197f1bc8666228800e379 (patch) | |
| tree | f9b1e671dfd12fb221f6140dd231ccb14cd9f27e /kernel/profile.c | |
| parent | bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-6378ddb592158db4b42197f1bc8666228800e379.zip op-kernel-dev-6378ddb592158db4b42197f1bc8666228800e379.tar.gz | |
time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime
Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained.
tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time
in a fine grained manner. But, it is not handling the time spent in
interrupts fully.
Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on
handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps
track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated.
This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can
shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the
frequency. The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming
soon.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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