Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:04:10 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] cpuidle: menu: Handle stopped tick more aggressively |
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:44:41PM +0800, leo.yan@linaro.org wrote: > I agree this patch can resolve the issue you mentioned in the commit > log, but this patch will be fragile for below case, so it will select > state1 but not state2, how about you think for this case? > > Idle_state0:: > target_residency TICK_USEC Prediction > | | / > V V / > -----------------------------------------------------> Time length > ^ ^ > | | > Idle_state1: Idle_state2: > target_residency target_residency
If someone can demonstate this is an actual problem; then we need to fix it I suppose. But it would be very good to have a real world need/reproducer for it first.
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