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Title:
  Performance degrades rapidly when spawning more processes to run
  benchmark

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Noble:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  When running erlang benchmark:
  https://github.com/jessestimpson/ets_load_benchmark_public.git

  Spwan more processes, the performance drops rapidly compare to 1 process,
  this issue was introduced on 5.18 kernel, 5.17 doesn't have this issue.

  Description of benchmark:
  n = number of processes
  f = % of performance relative to n = 1
  r = raw rate,
  t = time

  5.17 benchmark result:
  n,f,r,t
  1,1.0,9120867,5.003
  2,0.5061354891733854,4616394,5.001
  4,0.08950992302914515,816408,5.006
  8,0.01184452801350521,108032,5.098
  16,0.010647457942399005,97114,5.182
  32,0.010625520850290194,96913,5.672
  64,0.010831249272826072,98790,12.418
  128,0.010497878077414494,95749,27.061
  256,0.010104340575500272,92160,57.469

  5.18 benchmark result:
  n,f,r,t
  1,1.0,9382016,5.004
  2,0.4953986691824555,4647838,5.001
  4,0.10023648870773996,940420,5.005
  8,0.008932429179095262,83804,6.195
  16,0.0018372315021540654,17236,9.243
  32,9.585592402608068e-4,8993,22.119
  64,8.145250697989274e-4,7641,91.865
  128,7.778153535259693e-4,7297,278.728
  256,7.679856301480621e-4,7205,633.869

  This can be reproduced on noble 6.8 kernel:
  n,f,r,t
  1,1.0,9319448,5.005
  2,0.48816914209026224,4549467,5.001
  4,0.08824585392034001,822402,5.004
  8,0.0023127649346702354,21553,6.444
  16,0.0010507673678827175,9792,10.905
  32,8.959956782593959e-4,8350,22.648
  64,0.0013944409643284223,12995,6.551
  128,7.658929844955412e-4,7137,294.023
  256,7.462181950964878e-4,6954,619.978

  this commit has just merged into this plucky 6.14 SRU cycle

  
  [Fix]

  Upstream fixes this issue in cpuidle governor:
  commit 85975daeaa4d6ec560bfcd354fc9c08ad7f38888
  Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
  Date:   Thu Feb 6 15:29:05 2025 +0100

      cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information

  and also a follwoing commit to fix the above commit:
  commit fa3fa55de0d6177fdcaf6fc254f13cc8f33c3eed
  Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
  Date:   Mon Aug 11 17:03:11 2025 +0200

      cpuidle: governors: menu: Avoid using invalid recent intervals
  data

      Marc has reported that commit 85975daeaa4d ("cpuidle: menu: Avoid
      discarding useful information") caused the number of wakeup interrupts
      to increase on an idle system [1], which was not expected to happen
      after merely allowing shallower idle states to be selected by the
      governor in some cases.

  [Test Plan]

  Use the following steps can easily reproduce the issue:

  sudo apt install erlang-base -y
  git clone https://github.com/jessestimpson/ets_load_benchmark_public.git
  cd ets_load_benchmark_public
  erlc ets_load_benchmark.erl
  erl -noshell -s ets_load_benchmark -eval 'init:stop().'

  [Where problems could occur]

  These patches fix the cpuidle governor issue and are verified by upstream,
  if something really goes wrong, it could only affect cpu idle policy and 
cause more power consumption.

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