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Commit 3ee9e9a5 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle



commit bf5835bc upstream.

Having IBRS enabled while the SMT sibling is idle unnecessarily slows
down the running sibling. OTOH, disabling IBRS around idle takes two
MSR writes, which will increase the idle latency.

Therefore, only disable IBRS around deeper idle states. Shallow idle
states are bounded by the tick in duration, since NOHZ is not allowed
for them by virtue of their short target residency.

Only do this for mwait-driven idle, since that keeps interrupts disabled
across idle, which makes disabling IBRS vs IRQ-entry a non-issue.

Note: C6 is a random threshold, most importantly C1 probably shouldn't
disable IBRS, benchmarking needed.

Suggested-by: default avatarTim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[cascardo: no CPUIDLE_FLAG_IRQ_ENABLE]
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[cascardo: context adjustments]
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 97bc52c1
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