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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +0100 |
| commit | 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f (patch) | |
| tree | a9ac9063eca53e4d0110e8086f55241ea70ba993 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | |
| parent | 02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 (diff) | |
sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.
The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.
The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index 3a058bb1640..e70f3881d7e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ sysret_careful: sysret_signal: TRACE_IRQS_ON sti - testl $(_TIF_SIGPENDING|_TIF_SINGLESTEP|_TIF_MCE_NOTIFY),%edx + testl $_TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK,%edx jz 1f /* Really a signal */ @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int_very_careful: jmp int_restore_rest int_signal: - testl $(_TIF_SIGPENDING|_TIF_SINGLESTEP|_TIF_MCE_NOTIFY),%edx + testl $_TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK,%edx jz 1f movq %rsp,%rdi # &ptregs -> arg1 xorl %esi,%esi # oldset -> arg2 @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ retint_careful: jmp retint_check retint_signal: - testl $(_TIF_SIGPENDING|_TIF_SINGLESTEP|_TIF_MCE_NOTIFY),%edx + testl $_TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK,%edx jz retint_swapgs TRACE_IRQS_ON sti |