[PATCH 1/3] powerpc/pseries: Account for SPURR ticks on idle CPUs
Kamalesh Babulal
kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Dec 4 00:39:48 AEDT 2019
On 11/27/19 5:31 PM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote:
> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> On PSeries LPARs, to compute the utilization, tools such as lparstat
> need to know the [S]PURR ticks when the CPUs were busy or idle.
>
> In the pseries cpuidle driver, we keep track of the idle PURR ticks in
> the VPA variable "wait_state_cycles". This patch extends the support
> to account for the idle SPURR ticks.
Thanks for working on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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