cpuidle: Make ladder governor honor latency requirements fully
ladder governor only honored latency requirement when promoting C-states.
Instead. it should check for latency requirement on each idle call,
and demote to appropriate C-state when there is a latency requirement change.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c
index 27ab3bf..a4bec3f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c
@@ -99,6 +99,18 @@
/* consider demotion */
if (last_idx > CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START &&
+ dev->states[last_idx].exit_latency > latency_req) {
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = last_idx - 1; i > CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START; i--) {
+ if (dev->states[i].exit_latency <= latency_req)
+ break;
+ }
+ ladder_do_selection(ldev, last_idx, i);
+ return i;
+ }
+
+ if (last_idx > CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START &&
last_residency < last_state->threshold.demotion_time) {
last_state->stats.demotion_count++;
last_state->stats.promotion_count = 0;