8234f6734c
PM-runtime uses the timer infrastructure for autosuspend. This implies
that the minimum time before autosuspending a device is in the range
of 1 tick included to 2 ticks excluded
-On arm64 this means between 4ms and 8ms with default jiffies
configuration
-And on arm, it is between 10ms and 20ms
These values are quite high for embedded systems which sometimes want
the duration to be in the range of 1 ms.
It is possible to switch autosuspend over to using hrtimers to get
finer granularity for short durations and take advantage of slack to
retain some margins and get long timeouts with minimum wakeups.
On an arm64 platform that uses 1ms for autosuspending timeout of its
GPU, idle power is reduced by 10% with hrtimer.
The latency impact on arm64 hikey octo cores is:
- mark_last_busy: from 1.11 us to 1.25 us
- rpm_suspend: from 15.54 us to 15.38 us
[Only the code path of rpm_suspend() that starts hrtimer has been
measured.]
arm64 image (arm64 default defconfig) decreases by around 3KB
with following details:
$ size vmlinux-timer
text data bss dec hex filename
12034646 6869268 386840 19290754 1265a82 vmlinux
$ size vmlinux-hrtimer
text data bss dec hex filename
12030550 6870164 387032 19287746 1264ec2 vmlinux
The latency impact on arm 32bits snowball dual cores is :
- mark_last_busy: from 0.31 us usec to 0.77 us
- rpm_suspend: from 6.83 us to 6.67 usec
The increase of the image for snowball platform that I used for
testing performance impact, is neglictable (244B).
$ size vmlinux-timer
text data bss dec hex filename
7157961 2119580 264120 9541661 91981d build-ux500/vmlinux
size vmlinux-hrtimer
text data bss dec hex filename
7157773
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.