Rafael J. Wysocki 3cd2aa9367 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 <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7770672.EvYhyI6sBW@rjwysocki.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-06-04 14:42:05 +02:00
2025-06-04 14:42:02 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-05-22 14:12:26 +02:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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