1. 08 Mar, 2016 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'timers/core-v9' of... · 1f251846
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge branch 'timers/core-v9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
      
      Pull nohz enhancements from Frederic Weisbecker:
      
      "Currently in nohz full configs, the tick dependency is checked
       asynchronously by nohz code from interrupt and context switch for each
       concerned subsystem with a set of function provided by these. Such
       functions are made of many conditions and details that can be heavyweight
       as they are called on fastpath: sched_can_stop_tick(),
       posix_cpu_timer_can_stop_tick(), perf_event_can_stop_tick()...
      
       Thomas suggested a few months ago to make that tick dependency check
       synchronous. Instead of checking subsystems details from each interrupt
       to guess if the tick can be stopped, every subsystem that may have a tick
       dependency should set itself a flag specifying the state of that
       dependency. This way we can verify if we can stop the tick with a single
       lightweight mask check on fast path.
      
       This conversion from a pull to a push model to implement tick dependency
       is the core feature of this patchset that is split into:
      
        * Nohz wide kick simplification
        * Improve nohz tracing
        * Introduce tick dependency mask
        * Migrate scheduler, posix timers, perf events and sched clock tick
          dependencies to the tick dependency mask."
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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