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| author | Shi, Alex <alex.shi@intel.com> | 2011-07-28 14:56:12 +0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-09-28 21:38:29 -0700 |
| commit | fc0763f53e3ff6a6bfa66934662a3446b9ca6f16 (patch) | |
| tree | 2671d3f6275c9707a620032658ecb05025e4e9fa | |
| parent | d7bd2d68aa2ee2738a10c8ad9346b805e4ab2e1c (diff) | |
nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else. This
commit therefore removes this variable. This reduces memory footprint
and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from
the dyntick-idle path.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 6 |
3 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4ac2c0578e0..6ee91e20353 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -270,7 +270,6 @@ extern void init_idle_bootup_task(struct task_struct *idle); extern int runqueue_is_locked(int cpu); -extern cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask; #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) extern void select_nohz_load_balancer(int stop_tick); extern int get_nohz_timer_target(void); diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index e24cebe0e6c..3e552563045 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5980,15 +5980,6 @@ void __cpuinit init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu) } /* - * In a system that switches off the HZ timer nohz_cpu_mask - * indicates which cpus entered this state. This is used - * in the rcu update to wait only for active cpus. For system - * which do not switch off the HZ timer nohz_cpu_mask should - * always be CPU_BITS_NONE. - */ -cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask; - -/* * Increase the granularity value when there are more CPUs, * because with more CPUs the 'effective latency' as visible * to users decreases. But the relationship is not linear, @@ -8200,8 +8191,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void) */ current->sched_class = &fair_sched_class; - /* Allocate the nohz_cpu_mask if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */ - zalloc_cpumask_var(&nohz_cpu_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP zalloc_cpumask_var(&sched_domains_tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT); #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index d5097c44b40..eb98e55196b 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(ktime_t now) struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); unsigned long flags; - cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask); ts->idle_waketime = now; local_irq_save(flags); @@ -389,9 +388,6 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle) else expires.tv64 = KTIME_MAX; - if (delta_jiffies > 1) - cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask); - /* Skip reprogram of event if its not changed */ if (ts->tick_stopped && ktime_equal(expires, dev->next_event)) goto out; @@ -441,7 +437,6 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle) * softirq. */ tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_get()); - cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask); } raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ); out: @@ -524,7 +519,6 @@ void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void) /* Update jiffies first */ select_nohz_load_balancer(0); tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); - cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask); #ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING /* |