On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 02:12:27PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On 08/14/2014 04:14 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> > On 08/14/2014 01:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> >>
>> >> So seeing how you're from @intel.com I'm assuming you're using x86 here.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not seeing how this can be possible, MWAIT is interrupted by IPIs
>> >> just fine, which means we'll fall out of the cpuidle_enter(), which
>> >> means we'll cpuidle_reflect(), and then leave cpuidle_idle_call().
>> >>
>> >> It will indeed not leave the cpu_idle_loop() function and go right back
>> >> into cpuidle_idle_call(), but that will then call cpuidle_select() which
>> >> should pick a new C state.
>> >>
>> >> So the interrupt _should_ work. If it doesn't you need to explain why.
>> >
>> > I think the issue is related to the poll_idle state, in
>> > drivers/cpuidle/driver.c. This state is x86 specific and inserted in the
>> > cpuidle table as the state 0 (POLL). There is no mwait for this state.
>> > It is a bit confusing because this state is not listed in the acpi /
>> > intel idle driver but inserted implicitly at the beginning of the idle
>> > table by the cpuidle framework when the driver is registered.
>> >
>> > static int poll_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> > struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index)
>> > {
>> > local_irq_enable();
>> > if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
>> > while (!need_resched())
>> > cpu_relax();
>> > }
>> > current_clr_polling();
>> >
>> > return index;
>> > }
>>
>> As the most recent person to have modified this function, and as an
>> avowed hater of pointless IPIs, let me ask a rather different question:
>> why are you sending IPIs at all? As of Linux 3.16, poll_idle actually
>> supports the polling idle interface :)
>>
>> Can't you just do:
>>
>> if (set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle)) {
>> trace_sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu);
>> } else {
>> spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
>> if (rq->curr == rq->idle)
>> smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
>> // else the CPU wasn't idle; nothing to do
>> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
>> }
>>
>> In the common case (wake from C0, i.e. polling idle), this will skip the
>> IPI entirely unless you race with idle entry/exit, saving a few more
>> precious electrons and all of the latency involved in poking the APIC
>> registers.
>
> They could and they probably should, but that logic should _not_ live in
> the cpuidle driver.
Sure. My point is that fixing the IPI handler is, I think, totally
bogus, because the IPI API isn't the right way to do this at all.
It would be straightforward to add a new function wake_if_idle(int
cpu) to sched/core.c.
--Andy
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