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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 /arch/x86
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>
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