Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from idle

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:46:41AM +0000, Yang Zhang wrote:
> In ttwu_do_wakeup, it will update avg_idle when wakeup from idle. Here
> we just reuse this logic to update the poll time. It may be a little
> late to update the poll in ttwu_do_wakeup, but the test result shows no
> obvious performance gap compare with updating poll in irq handler.
> 
> one problem is that idle_stamp only used when using CFS scheduler. But
> it is ok since it is the default policy for scheduler and only consider
> it should enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@xxxxxxxxx>

Same broken SoB chain, and not a useful word on why you need to adjust
this crap to begin with. What you want that poll duration to be related
to is the cost of a VMEXIT/VMENTER cycle, not however long we happened
to be idle.

So no.