On 03/20/2018 04:42 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2018-03-20 00:54, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On 03/10/2018 11:06 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> On 2018-03-09 08:51, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> 4.9 requires more work, I've pushed the beginning to wip/4.9 in the same
>>>> repo.
>>>
>>> I started to patch further on this during my flight (wip/4.9 updated),
>>> noticed that the 4.14-wip queue will need a little bit sysentry tweaking
>>> as well (missing 64-bit syscall dispatching), and then had to find 4.9
>>> in a rather unfortunate state /wrt x86-64: CPUs are no longer idling
>>> properly.
>>
>> Meaning they do not enter any high CSTATE although they should with
>> CPU_IDLE* properly set, or something breaks when doing so?
> 
> This was in KVM, no CSTATEs involved.
> 
>>
>> Please share your CONFIG_CPU_IDLE* settings. I'll try to reproduce here.
>>
> 
> #
> # CPU Idle
> #
> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y
> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER=y
> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU=y
> # CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_CPU_IDLE_COUPLED is not set
> # CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE is not set
> 

Ok, #89146106e8 should restore the previous pipeline behavior from 4.4,
#595606457f in -stable should enable an (hopefully) smarter handling
with Xenomai having its say on whether the idle state should be entered.

-- 
Philippe.

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