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It is reported that commit85975daeaa("cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information") led to a performance regression on Intel Jasper Lake systems because it reduced the time spent by CPUs in idle state C7 which is correlated to the maximum frequency the CPUs can get to because of an average running power limit [1]. Before that commit, get_typical_interval() would have returned UINT_MAX whenever it had been unable to make a high-confidence prediction which had led to selecting the deepest available idle state too often and both power and performance had been inadequate as a result of that on some systems. However, this had not been a problem on systems with relatively aggressive average running power limits, like the Jasper Lake systems in question, because on those systems it was compensated by the ability to run CPUs faster. It was addressed by causing get_typical_interval() to return a number based on the recent idle duration information available to it even if it could not make a high-confidence prediction, but that clearly did not take the possible correlation between idle power and available CPU capacity into account. For this reason, revert most of the changes made by commit85975daeaa, except for one cosmetic cleanup, and add a comment explaining the rationale for returning UINT_MAX from get_typical_interval() when it is unable to make a high-confidence prediction. Fixes:85975daeaa("cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/36iykr223vmcfsoysexug6s274nq2oimcu55ybn6ww4il3g3cv@cohflgdbpnq7/ [1] Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3663603.iIbC2pHGDl@rafael.j.wysocki
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