On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 7/17/2017 12:46 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > That's where Daniel Lezcanos work of predicting interrupts comes in and
> > that's the right solution to the problem. The core infrastructure has been
> > merged, just the idle/cpufreq users are not there yet. All you need to do
> > is to select CONFIG_IRQ_TIMINGS and use the statistics generated there.
> >
> yes ;-)
:)
> also note that the predictor does not need to perfect, on most systems C
> states are an order of magnitude apart in terms of
> power/performance/latency so if you get the general order of magnitude
> right the predictor is doing its job.
So it would be interesting just to enable the irq timings stuff and compare
the outcome as a first step. That should be reasonably simple to implement
and would give us also some information of how that code behaves on larger
systems.
Thanks,
tglx
