>
> So my point is that you cannot use the PMU to account for wall-clock time when you
> go in halted state. Yet, you could use the idle notifier to compensate for it by
> recording let's say TSC prior to entry and computing delta on exit. But then I am
> not sure what you would do with it given that other events may or may not have
> counted during that time, making scaling harder to do.
I think correcting it with the TSC is fine. It might not be perfect, but it's
good enough for most uses. Certainly much better than idle=poll
> Once solution, implemented by Itanium Montecito processor, is to have a PMU event
> that counts cycles spent in halted state.
This solution is incompatible with aggressive power management.
-Andi
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