From 3704540b48295253bd9c87a5e7ff545f9d47a3b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: john stultz Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:37:35 -0700 Subject: tick management: spread timer interrupt After discussing w/ Thomas over IRC, it seems the issue is the sched tick fires on every cpu at the same time, causing extra lock contention. This smaller change, adds an extra offset per cpu so the ticks don't line up. This patch also drops the idle latency from 40us down to under 20us. Signed-off-by: john stultz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 52db9e3c526..b416995b975 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void) { struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched); ktime_t now = ktime_get(); + u64 offset; /* * Emulate tick processing via per-CPU hrtimers: @@ -554,8 +555,12 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void) ts->sched_timer.function = tick_sched_timer; ts->sched_timer.cb_mode = HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ; - /* Get the next period */ + /* Get the next period (per cpu) */ ts->sched_timer.expires = tick_init_jiffy_update(); + offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1; + do_div(offset, NR_CPUS); + offset *= smp_processor_id(); + ts->sched_timer.expires = ktime_add_ns(ts->sched_timer.expires, offset); for (;;) { hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period); -- cgit v1.2.3