From 7a14ce1d8c1d3a6118d406e64eaf9aa70375e085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:43:53 +0200 Subject: nohz: reduce jiffies polling overhead Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index b854a895591..cb75394ed00 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now) unsigned long ticks = 0; ktime_t delta; + /* + * Do a quick check without holding xtime_lock: + */ + delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update); + if (delta.tv64 < tick_period.tv64) + return; + /* Reevalute with xtime_lock held */ write_seqlock(&xtime_lock); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 857f3fd7a496ddf4329345af65a4a2b16dd25fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:09:22 +0200 Subject: nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending. In case a cpu goes idle but softirqs are pending only an error message is printed to the console. It may take a very long time until the pending softirqs will finally be executed. Worst case would be a hanging system. With this patch the timer tick just continues and the softirqs will be executed after the next interrupt. Still a delay but better than a hanging system. Currently we have at least two device drivers on s390 which under certain circumstances schedule a tasklet from process context. This is a reason why we can end up with pending softirqs when going idle. Fixing these drivers seems to be non-trivial. However there is no question that the drivers should be fixed. This patch shouldn't be considered as a bug fix. It just is intended to keep a system running even if device drivers are buggy. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jan Glauber Cc: Stefan Weinhuber Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index cb75394ed00..86baa4f0dfe 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) local_softirq_pending()); ratelimit++; } + goto end; } ts->idle_calls++; -- cgit v1.2.3