From 3c5d92a0cfb5103c0d5ab74d4ae6373d3af38148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:25:16 +0200 Subject: 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 LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 7378e2c71ca..3840f6dff7e 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2