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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c index 4d9aa5ce31f0..7d21fb5a72f4 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c @@ -188,20 +188,17 @@ again: * * This can deal with workloads that have long pauses interspersed * with sporadic activity with a bunch of short pauses. + * + * However, if the number of remaining samples is too small to exclude + * any more outliers, allow the deepest available idle state to be + * selected because there are systems where the time spent by CPUs in + * deep idle states is correlated to the maximum frequency the CPUs + * can get to. On those systems, shallow idle states should be avoided + * unless there is a clear indication that the given CPU is most likley + * going to be woken up shortly. */ - if (divisor * 4 <= INTERVALS * 3) { - /* - * If there are sufficiently many data points still under - * consideration after the outliers have been eliminated, - * returning without a prediction would be a mistake because it - * is likely that the next interval will not exceed the current - * maximum, so return the latter in that case. - */ - if (divisor >= INTERVALS / 2) - return max; - + if (divisor * 4 <= INTERVALS * 3) return UINT_MAX; - } /* Update the thresholds for the next round. */ if (avg - min > max - avg) |