Re: [linux-pm] Higer latency with dynamic tick (need for an io-ondemandgovenor?)

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008, Woodruff, Richard wrote:
> > When capturing some traces with dynamic tick we were noticing the
> > interrupt latency seems to go up a good amount. If you look at the trace
> > the gpio IRQ is now offset a good amount.  Good news I guess is its
> > pretty predictable.
> 
> That is, about 24 usec on this CPU ... an ARM v7, which I'm guessing
> is an OMAP34xx running fairly fast (order of 4x faster than most ARMs).
> 
> Similar issues were noted, also using ETM trace, on an ARM920 core [1]
> from Atmel.  There, the overhead of NO_HZ was observed to be more like
> 150 usec of per-IRQ overhead, which is enough to make NO_HZ non-viable
> in some configurations.
> 
> 
> > I was wondering what thoughts of optimizing this might be.
> 
> Cutting down the math implied by jiffies updates might help.
> The 64 bit math for ktime structs isn't cheap; purely by eyeball,
> that was almost 1/3 the cost of that 24 usec (mostly __do_div64).

Hmm, I have no real good idea to avoid the div64 in the case of a long
idle sleep. Any brilliant patches are welcome :)

Thanks,
	tglx