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authorArun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-04-16 12:16:41 +0530
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-05-13 16:52:42 +0200
commiteea08f32adb3f97553d49a4f79a119833036000a (patch)
tree4e6af5185309d7abe49a8fa19634ea38582381e4 /kernel/timer.c
parentcd1bb94b4a0531e8211a3774f17de831f8285f76 (diff)
downloadlinux-eea08f32adb3f97553d49a4f79a119833036000a.tar.bz2
timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs are not migrated. While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu. So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device. [ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ] Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/timer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/timer.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 3424dfd11d50..3f841db5edf9 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -609,9 +610,7 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires,
{
struct tvec_base *base, *new_base;
unsigned long flags;
- int ret;
-
- ret = 0;
+ int ret = 0 , cpu;
timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(timer);
BUG_ON(!timer->function);
@@ -630,6 +629,18 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires,
new_base = __get_cpu_var(tvec_bases);
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+ if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() && idle_cpu(cpu)) {
+ int preferred_cpu = get_nohz_load_balancer();
+
+ if (preferred_cpu >= 0)
+ cpu = preferred_cpu;
+ }
+#endif
+ new_base = per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu);
+
if (base != new_base) {
/*
* We are trying to schedule the timer on the local CPU.