linux-kernel-test/arch
Venki Pallipadi bde6f5f59c x86: voluntary leave_mm before entering ACPI C3
Aviod TLB flush IPIs during C3 states by voluntary leave_mm()
before entering C3.

The performance impact of TLB flush on C3 should not be significant with
respect to C3 wakeup latency. Also, CPUs tend to flush TLB in hardware while in
C3 anyways.

On a 8 logical CPU system, running make -j2, the number of tlbflush IPIs goes
down from 40 per second to ~ 0. Total number of interrupts during the run
of this workload was ~1200 per second, which makes it ~3% savings in wakeups.

There was no measurable performance or power impact however.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: symbol export fixes. ]

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:32:01 +01:00
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alpha remove __attribute_used__ 2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
arm spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
avr32 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
blackfin all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
cris all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
frv Remove references to "make dep" 2008-01-28 23:22:13 +01:00
h8300 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
ia64 spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
m32r spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
m68k all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
m68knommu all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
mips spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
parisc spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
powerpc spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25 2008-01-29 22:54:01 +11:00
s390 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sh all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sparc all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sparc64 spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
um UML: remove remaining FASTCALL uses 2008-01-30 13:31:14 +01:00
v850 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
x86 x86: voluntary leave_mm before entering ACPI C3 2008-01-30 13:32:01 +01:00
xtensa Remove references to "make dep" 2008-01-28 23:22:13 +01:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00