From f98823ac758ba1aa77c6e3f8ad4ef3ad84ee0a7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:17:22 +0100 Subject: nohz: New option to default all CPUs in full dynticks range Provide a new kernel config that defaults all CPUs to be part of the full dynticks range, except the boot one for timekeeping. This default setting is overriden by the nohz_full= boot option if passed by the user. This is helpful for those who don't need a finegrained range of full dynticks CPU and also for automated testing. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-sched.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index d71a5f2..a76e090 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -203,12 +203,31 @@ static int __cpuinit tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, */ static char __initdata nohz_full_buf[NR_CPUS + 1]; +static int tick_nohz_init_all(void) +{ + int err = -1; + +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL + if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&nohz_full_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) { + pr_err("NO_HZ: Can't allocate full dynticks cpumask\n"); + return err; + } + err = 0; + cpumask_setall(nohz_full_mask); + cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), nohz_full_mask); + have_nohz_full_mask = true; +#endif + return err; +} + void __init tick_nohz_init(void) { int cpu; - if (!have_nohz_full_mask) - return; + if (!have_nohz_full_mask) { + if (tick_nohz_init_all() < 0) + return; + } cpu_notifier(tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback, 0); -- cgit v1.1