Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/11] Create fast idle path for short idle periods

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Jul 17 2017 - 15:55:39 EST


On 7/17/2017 12:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On 7/17/2017 12:23 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Of course, this all assumes a Gaussian distribution to begin with, if we
get bimodal (or worse) distributions we can still get it wrong. To fix
that, we'd need to do something better than what we currently have.


fwiw some time ago I made a chart for predicted vs actual so you can sort
of judge the distribution of things visually

Predicted by what?

this chart was with the current linux predictor

http://git.fenrus.org/tmp/timer.png is what you get if you JUST use the next timer ;-)
(which way back linux was doing)