Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:50:35 -0000 | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | [patch 4 18/22] tick/sched: Remove pointless empty function |
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This was a failed attempt to optimize the timer expiry in idle, which was disabled and never revisited. Remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
--- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 33 +-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 32 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -1092,35 +1092,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(voi tick_nohz_activate(ts, NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES); } -/* - * When NOHZ is enabled and the tick is stopped, we need to kick the - * tick timer from irq_enter() so that the jiffies update is kept - * alive during long running softirqs. That's ugly as hell, but - * correctness is key even if we need to fix the offending softirq in - * the first place. - * - * Note, this is different to tick_nohz_restart. We just kick the - * timer and do not touch the other magic bits which need to be done - * when idle is left. - */ -static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) -{ -#if 0 - /* Switch back to 2.6.27 behaviour */ - ktime_t delta; - - /* - * Do not touch the tick device, when the next expiry is either - * already reached or less/equal than the tick period. - */ - delta = ktime_sub(hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer), now); - if (delta.tv64 <= tick_period.tv64) - return; - - tick_nohz_restart(ts, now); -#endif -} - static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(void) { struct tick_sched *ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched); @@ -1131,10 +1102,8 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(v now = ktime_get(); if (ts->idle_active) tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now); - if (ts->tick_stopped) { + if (ts->tick_stopped) tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now); - tick_nohz_kick_tick(ts, now); - } } #else
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