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[v5,6/6] rtla: Documentation: Mention --deepest-idle-state

Message ID 20241017140914.3200454-7-tglozar@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Series rtla: Support idle state disabling via libcpupower in timerlat | expand

Commit Message

Tomas Glozar Oct. 17, 2024, 2:09 p.m. UTC 
From: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>

Add --deepest-idle-state to manpage and mention libcpupower dependency
in README.txt.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst | 8 ++++++++
 tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt                        | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst
index cef6651f1435..10dc802f8d65 100644
--- a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst
+++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ 
         *cyclictest* sets this value to *0* by default, use **--dma-latency** *0* to have
         similar results.
 
+**--deepest-idle-state** *n*
+        Disable idle states higher than *n* for cpus that are running timerlat threads to
+        reduce exit from idle latencies. If *n* is -1, all idle states are disabled.
+        On exit from timerlat, the idle state setting is restored to its original state
+        before running timerlat.
+
+        Requires rtla to be built with libcpupower.
+
 **-k**, **--kernel-threads**
 
         Use timerlat kernel-space threads, in contrast of **-u**.
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt b/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt
index 4af3fd40f171..dd5621038c55 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@  RTLA depends on the following libraries and tools:
 
  - libtracefs
  - libtraceevent
+ - libcpupower (optional, for --deepest-idle-state)
 
 It also depends on python3-docutils to compile man pages.
 
@@ -26,6 +27,9 @@  For development, we suggest the following steps for compiling rtla:
   $ make
   $ sudo make install
   $ cd ..
+  $ cd $libcpupower_src
+  $ make
+  $ sudo make install
   $ cd $rtla_src
   $ make
   $ sudo make install