Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"

Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for
repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a
significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by
Jeremy Eder:

  We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code
  that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads.
  The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so
  we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers.  We also
  have data from a large database setup where performance is also
  measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily
  share-able.

  Included below are test results from 3 test kernels:

  kernel       reverts
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  1) vanilla   upstream (no reverts)

  2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c

  3) test      reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4
                       e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c

  In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4%
  after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4.  When
  69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 is included, C0 residency
  never seems to get above 40%.  Taking that patch out gets C0 near
  100% quite often, and performance increases.

  The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @
  1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test.

  - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency
    almost entirely in the 30,40% bin.
  - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4,
    shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins.

  Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the
  particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3
  test kernels.  We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where
  we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact
  boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above
  baseline.

  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0):
  TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts)
  TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     1]: *
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    49]:
  *************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit
  e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c)
  TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [     2]: **
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    58]:
  **********************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4
  and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c)
  TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    27]: ***************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     2]: **
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     2]: **
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    28]: ****************************

  Sender:
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     1]: *
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     3]: ***
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     7]: *******
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    38]: **************************************

  These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to
  stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield
  measurably better performance), by reverting commit
  69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4.

Requested-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index e80183f4a6c..e77edc97e03 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -827,13 +827,10 @@ void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
 
-	if (ts->inidle) {
-		/* Cancel the timer because CPU already waken up from the C-states*/
-		menu_hrtimer_cancel();
+	if (ts->inidle)
 		__tick_nohz_idle_enter(ts);
-	} else {
+	else
 		tick_nohz_full_stop_tick(ts);
-	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -931,8 +928,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
 
 	ts->inidle = 0;
 
-	/* Cancel the timer because CPU already waken up from the C-states*/
-	menu_hrtimer_cancel();
 	if (ts->idle_active || ts->tick_stopped)
 		now = ktime_get();