From 886af26f2c64802da948cbe671eb5ca582049aea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:29:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information [ Upstream commit 85975daeaa4d6ec560bfcd354fc9c08ad7f38888 ] When giving up on making a high-confidence prediction, get_typical_interval() always returns UINT_MAX which means that the next idle interval prediction will be based entirely on the time till the next timer. However, the information represented by the most recent intervals may not be completely useless in those cases. Namely, the largest recent idle interval is an upper bound on the recently observed idle duration, so it is reasonable to assume that the next idle duration is unlikely to exceed it. Moreover, this is still true after eliminating the suspected outliers if the sample set still under consideration is at least as large as 50% of the maximum sample set size. Accordingly, make get_typical_interval() return the current maximum recent interval value in that case instead of UINT_MAX. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle Tested-by: Christian Loehle Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7770672.EvYhyI6sBW@rjwysocki.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c index 28363bfa3e4c9..42b77d820d0fb 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c @@ -192,8 +192,19 @@ again: * This can deal with workloads that have long pauses interspersed * with sporadic activity with a bunch of short pauses. */ - if ((divisor * 4) <= INTERVALS * 3) + if (divisor * 4 <= INTERVALS * 3) { + /* + * If there are sufficiently many data points still under + * consideration after the outliers have been eliminated, + * returning without a prediction would be a mistake because it + * is likely that the next interval will not exceed the current + * maximum, so return the latter in that case. + */ + if (divisor >= INTERVALS / 2) + return max; + return UINT_MAX; + } thresh = max - 1; goto again; -- 2.47.2