x86/asm/delay: Introduce an MWAITX-based delay with a configurable timer
authorHuang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:19:54 +0000 (12:19 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:52:16 +0000 (14:52 +0200)
commitb466bdb614823aaaa7188e85516177d2850f4782
tree7ff33b9f498f7bd98c1edef07da63a09ef9710c9
parentf96756746c7909de37db3d03ac5fd5cfb2757f38
x86/asm/delay: Introduce an MWAITX-based delay with a configurable timer

MWAITX can enable a timer and a corresponding timer value
specified in SW P0 clocks. The SW P0 frequency is the same as
TSC. The timer provides an upper bound on how long the
instruction waits before exiting.

This way, a delay function in the kernel can leverage that
MWAITX timer of MWAITX.

When a CPU core executes MWAITX, it will be quiesced in a
waiting phase, diminishing its power consumption. This way, we
can save power in comparison to our default TSC-based delays.

A simple test shows that:

$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:18.4/hwmon/hwmon0/power1_acc
$ sleep 10000s
$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:18.4/hwmon/hwmon0/power1_acc

Results:

* TSC-based default delay:      485115 uWatts average power
* MWAITX-based delay:           252738 uWatts average power

Thus, that's about 240 milliWatts less power consumption. The
test method relies on the support of AMD CPU accumulated power
algorithm in fam15h_power for which patches are forthcoming.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
[ Fix delay truncation. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@gmail.com>
Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Li <tony.li@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438744732-1459-3-git-send-email-ray.huang@amd.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439201994-28067-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/delay.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
arch/x86/lib/delay.c