powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Nov 14 22:12:00 AEDT 2017
On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 18:58:41 UTC, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> On PowerNV platforms, firmware provides exit latency and
> target residency for each of the idle states in nano
> seconds. Cpuidle framework expects the values in micro
> seconds. Round up to nearest micro seconds to avoid errors
> in cases where the values are defined as fractional micro
> seconds.
>
> Default idle state of 'snooze' has exit latency of zero. If
> other states have fractional micro second exit latency, they
> would get rounded down to zero micro second and make cpuidle
> framework choose deeper idle state when snooze loop is the
> right choice.
>
> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8d4e10e9ed9450e18fbbf6a8872be0
cheers
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