linux/kernel/sched
Peter Zijlstra c1de45ca83 sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle
Idle injection drivers such as Intel powerclamp and ACPI PAD drivers use
realtime tasks to take control of CPU then inject idle. There are two
issues with this approach:

 1. Low efficiency: injected idle task is treated as busy so sched ticks
    do not stop during injected idle period, the result of these
    unwanted wakeups can be ~20% loss in power savings.

 2. Idle accounting: injected idle time is presented to user as busy.

This patch addresses the issues by introducing a new PF_IDLE flag which
allows any given task to be treated as idle task while the flag is set.
Therefore, idle injection tasks can run through the normal flow of NOHZ
idle enter/exit to get the correct accounting as well as tick stop when
possible.

The implication is that idle task is then no longer limited to PID == 0.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-11-29 14:02:21 +01:00
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auto_group.c
auto_group.h
clock.c sched/clock: Make local_clock()/cpu_clock() inline 2016-04-13 12:25:22 +02:00
completion.c
core.c sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle 2016-11-29 14:02:21 +01:00
cpuacct.c sched/cpuacct: Introduce cpuacct.usage_all to show all CPU stats together 2016-07-09 13:56:15 +02:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Simplify the cpuacct code 2016-03-21 11:00:28 +01:00
cpudeadline.c sched/deadline: Split cpudl_set() into cpudl_set() and cpudl_clear() 2016-09-05 13:29:43 +02:00
cpudeadline.h sched/deadline: Split cpudl_set() into cpudl_set() and cpudl_clear() 2016-09-05 13:29:43 +02:00
cpufreq.c cpufreq / sched: Pass flags to cpufreq_update_util() 2016-08-16 22:14:55 +02:00
cpufreq_schedutil.c cpufreq: schedutil: Add iowait boosting 2016-09-13 23:36:01 +02:00
cpupri.c sched/core: Use tsk_cpus_allowed() instead of accessing ->cpus_allowed 2016-05-12 09:55:35 +02:00
cpupri.h
cputime.c sched/irqtime: Consolidate irqtime flushing code 2016-09-30 11:46:41 +02:00
deadline.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-10-03 13:39:00 -07:00
debug.c Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-10-14 12:18:50 -07:00
fair.c This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to 2016-10-15 10:03:15 -07:00
features.h
idle.c sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle 2016-11-29 14:02:21 +01:00
idle_task.c sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings() 2016-09-30 11:03:09 +02:00
loadavg.c sched/core: Correct off by one bug in load migration calculation 2016-07-13 14:58:20 +02:00
Makefile cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization data 2016-04-02 01:09:12 +02:00
rt.c cpufreq / sched: Pass runqueue pointer to cpufreq_update_util() 2016-08-16 22:16:03 +02:00
sched.h Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-10-03 16:13:28 -07:00
stats.c
stats.h sched/debug: Rename 'schedstat_val()' -> 'schedstat_val_or_zero()' 2016-09-05 13:29:46 +02:00
stop_task.c locking/lockdep, sched/core: Implement a better lock pinning scheme 2016-05-05 09:23:59 +02:00
swait.c wait.[ch]: Introduce the simple waitqueue (swait) implementation 2016-02-25 11:27:16 +01:00
wait.c sched/wait: Introduce init_wait_entry() 2016-09-30 10:54:03 +02:00