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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2009-09-29 14:25:16 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-11-05 07:53:53 +0100
commit3c5d92a0cfb5103c0d5ab74d4ae6373d3af38148 (patch)
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parenteed3b9cf3fe3fcc7a50238dfcab63a63914e8f42 (diff)
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nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup. On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 7378e2c..3840f6d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -264,12 +264,15 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
last_jiffies = jiffies;
} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
- /* Get the next timer wheel timer */
- next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies);
- delta_jiffies = next_jiffies - last_jiffies;
-
- if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu))
+ if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu) ||
+ arch_needs_cpu(cpu)) {
+ next_jiffies = last_jiffies + 1;
delta_jiffies = 1;
+ } else {
+ /* Get the next timer wheel timer */
+ next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies);
+ delta_jiffies = next_jiffies - last_jiffies;
+ }
/*
* Do not stop the tick, if we are only one off
* or if the cpu is required for rcu
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