Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:11:40 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: "YAMAMOTO, Taku" <taku@tackymt.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management Message-ID: <4C7B91EC.5070906@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20100830195941.9731109c.taku@tackymt.homeip.net> References: <4C7A5C28.1090904@FreeBSD.org> <20100830110932.23425932@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4C7B82EA.2040104@FreeBSD.org> <20100830195941.9731109c.taku@tackymt.homeip.net>
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YAMAMOTO, Taku wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:38 +0300 > Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> Gary Jennejohn wrote: > (snip) >>> So, what else did you do to reduce interrupts so much? >>> >>> Ah, I think I see it now. My desktop has only C1 enabled. Is that it? >>> Unfortunately, it appears that only C1 is supported :( >> Yes, as I have said, at this moment empty ticks skipped only while CPU >> is in C2/C3 states. In C1 state there is no way to handle lost events on >> wake up. While it may be not very dangerous, it is not very good. > > There's an alternative way to catch exit-from-C1 atomically: > use MWAIT with bit0 of ECX set (``Treat masked interrupts as break events'' > in Intel 64 and IA-32 Architecthres Software Developer's Manual). > > In this way we can put each core individually into deeper Cx state without > additional costs (SMIs and the like) as a bonus. > > The problem is that it may be unavailable to earlier CPUs that support > MONITOR/MWAIT instructions: > we should check the presense of this feature by examining bit0 and bit1 of ECX > that is returned by CPUID 5. Thank you for the hint. I will investigate it now. But it still help only x86 systems. I have no idea how power management works on arm/mips/ppc/..., but I assume that periodic wake up there also may be not free. -- Alexander Motin
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