From 495ab9c045e1b0e5c82951b762257fe1c9d81564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:59:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status. Converted i386/x86-64/ia64 for now because that was the easiest way to fix ACPI which also manipulates these flags in its idle function. Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sched.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index f06d059edef..7d1027a4dd2 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -818,6 +818,11 @@ static void deactivate_task(struct task_struct *p, runqueue_t *rq) * the target CPU. */ #ifdef CONFIG_SMP + +#ifndef tsk_is_polling +#define tsk_is_polling(t) test_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) +#endif + static void resched_task(task_t *p) { int cpu; @@ -833,9 +838,9 @@ static void resched_task(task_t *p) if (cpu == smp_processor_id()) return; - /* NEED_RESCHED must be visible before we test POLLING_NRFLAG */ + /* NEED_RESCHED must be visible before we test polling */ smp_mb(); - if (!test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG)) + if (!tsk_is_polling(p)) smp_send_reschedule(cpu); } #else -- cgit v1.2.3