Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:57:06 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/33] nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a non-full-nohz CPU |
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:08:08AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick > stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking > care of the jiffies and gtod progression. > > NOTE: this doesn't handle CPU hotplug. Also we could use something > more elaborated wrt. powersaving if we have more than one non full-nohz > CPU running. But let's use this KISS solution for now. > > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> > Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> > Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> > Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> > Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> > Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > [fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase] > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > --- > kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 3 ++- > kernel/time/tick-common.c | 5 ++++- > kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 9 ++++++++- > 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c > index f113755..596c547 100644 > --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c > +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c > @@ -537,7 +537,8 @@ void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc) > bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast; > > /* Take the do_timer update */ > - tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; > + if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) > + tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; > > /* > * We must be careful here. There might be other CPUs > diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c > index b1600a6..83f2bd9 100644 > --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c > +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c > @@ -163,7 +163,10 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tick_device *td, > * this cpu: > */ > if (tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT) { > - tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; > + if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) > + tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; > + else > + tick_do_timer_cpu = TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE; > tick_next_period = ktime_get(); > tick_period = ktime_set(0, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ); > } > diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > index 494a2aa..b75e302 100644 > --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(ktime_t now) > * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by > * jiffies_lock. > */ > - if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) > + if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE) > + && !tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) > tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; > #endif > > @@ -163,6 +164,8 @@ static int __init tick_nohz_full_setup(char *str) > return 1; > } > __setup("full_nohz=", tick_nohz_full_setup); > +#else > +#define have_full_nohz_mask (0) > #endif
Looks like this hunk should be part of the previous patch, no?
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Oui, oui monsieur! :-)
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