Re: [PATCH] X86/CPU: Avoid 100ms sleep for cpu offline during S3

From: Lan Tianyu
Date: Thu Aug 07 2014 - 04:50:33 EST


On 2014å08æ06æ 21:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2014, Lan, Tianyu wrote:
>> Have you tried my attached kernel config file? When someone reported
>> the issue to me, I also was very hard to reproduce the issue by my own
>> config file. Maybe once 100 tries. But I can reproduced the issue every
>> time with the attached configure file on several my machines and even
>> on server.
>
> There was no attachment.

Hi Gene:
Sorry. I meant the config file I attached in the my last reply.

>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 7:08 PM
>> To: Lan, Tianyu
>> Cc: tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; hpa@xxxxxxxxx; x86@xxxxxxxxxx;
>> toshi.kani@xxxxxx; imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx; jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx;
>> mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx; prarit@xxxxxxxxxx;
>> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Brandt, Todd E Subject: Re: [PATCH]
>> X86/CPU: Avoid 100ms sleep for cpu offline during S3
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 05:29:18PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
>>> I think you can pull Tod's tool from git hub and do test from your
>>> laptop. I attached a configure file come from ubuntu which is easier
>>> to produce the issue. You can use it to reproduce the issue.
>>
>> Right, so I ran it on an old dualcore AMD laptop I have lying around
>> here and it didn't show any difference with or without your patch.
>>
>> For all 4 runs I did with the tool running it without any arguments (so
>> it did the default thing), I got suspend time for CPU1 of 4-6 msec and
>> resume of ~20msec.
>>
>> I don't know whether it is the dual core or AMD but your patch doesn't
>> change anything on that laptop which is ok, I'd guess.
>>
>>> Ok. BTW, I have tested it on the Ivbridge and Haswell machines.
>>
>> Yeah, add those numbers to the commit message too.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Regards/Gruss,
>> Boris.
>>
>> Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
>> --
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>


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Best regards
Tianyu Lan

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