From dce48a84adf1806676319f6f480e30a6daa012f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:43:41 +0200 Subject: sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values. Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls do_timer(). [ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index 687dff49f6e..52a8bf8931f 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ /* * This read-write spinlock protects us from races in SMP while - * playing with xtime and avenrun. + * playing with xtime. */ __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock); -- cgit v1.2.3