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Suresh Siddha authored
Introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq, which will track these two flags for now. NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED keeps track of the tick stopped status that gets set when the tick is stopped. It will be used to update the nohz idle load balancer data structures during the first busy tick after the tick is restarted. At this first busy tick after tickless idle, NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED flag will be reset. This will minimize the nohz idle load balancer status updates that currently happen for every tickless exit, making it more scalable when there are many logical cpu's that enter and exit idle often. NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK will track the need for nohz idle load balance on this rq. This will replace the nohz_balance_kick in the rq, which was not being updated atomically. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.499438999@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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