mako_hotplug: remove WQ_UNBOUND. If the queued work stays on the CPU that was queued by we will benefit from local caching and get better performance.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cpufreq: interactive: re-add memory barriers. Lack of these was causing some hw_resets.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
drivers: thermal: add a panic thermal throttle level. Also properly throttle the CPU policies if the CPU is pegged to 100% load for a long time because just by adjusting the limits would throttle the CPUs just by itself unless the frequency dropped by <= throttled frequency.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cpufreq: interactive: decrease input boost freq from max to 1242MHz for a extra bit of battery during prolonged use of the device.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
sound: expose hardware registers to userspace based on the datasheet: http://datasheet.elcodis.com/pdf2/79/40/794029/tpa2028d1.pdf

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
softirq: reduce latencies

In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up
to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100.

This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher,
and some actions can consume a lot of cycles.

This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to :

- A time limit of 2 ms.
- need_resched() being set on current task

When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further
softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs.

Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls,
as we can keep BH disabled for too long.

I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in
throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order
of magnitude) :

In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in
background, using all available cpus.

Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC
IRQ (hard+soft)

Before patch :

# netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k
RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=550110.424
MIN_LATENCY=146858
MAX_LATENCY=997109
P50_LATENCY=305000
P90_LATENCY=550000
P99_LATENCY=710000
MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12
STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92

After patch :

# netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k
RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=40545.492
MIN_LATENCY=9834
MAX_LATENCY=78366
P50_LATENCY=33583
P90_LATENCY=59000
P99_LATENCY=69000
MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67
STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
drivers: thermal: protect against race conditions. Won't get the policy if the cpu is offline and it won't decrease the current freq if the max is <= throttled freq. Also block any hotplug work during thermal throttling phase.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
drivers: thermal: temporarily remove a piece of code - needs more work that I thought.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Linux 3.4.63
Linux 3.4.64
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/nightlies-4.3-JWR' into sm-4.3-JWR