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authorVenki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2008-01-30 13:30:04 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:30:04 +0100
commit6378ddb592158db4b42197f1bc8666228800e379 (patch)
treef9b1e671dfd12fb221f6140dd231ccb14cd9f27e /include/linux/tick.h
parentbbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 (diff)
time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime
Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained. tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time in a fine grained manner. But, it is not handling the time spent in interrupts fully. Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated. This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the frequency. The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming soon. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tick.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tick.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index f4a1395e05ff..0fadf95debe1 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ struct tick_sched {
unsigned long idle_jiffies;
unsigned long idle_calls;
unsigned long idle_sleeps;
+ int idle_active;
ktime_t idle_entrytime;
ktime_t idle_sleeptime;
+ ktime_t idle_lastupdate;
ktime_t sleep_length;
unsigned long last_jiffies;
unsigned long next_jiffies;
@@ -103,6 +105,8 @@ extern void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void);
extern void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void);
extern void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void);
extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void);
+extern void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu);
+extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
# else
static inline void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void) { }
@@ -113,6 +117,8 @@ static inline ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void)
return len;
}
+static inline void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu) { }
+static inline u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *unused) { return 0; }
# endif /* !NO_HZ */
#endif