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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/timer.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index accfd241b9e5..b75e7893be14 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -939,8 +939,15 @@ void add_timer_on(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu) * with the timer by holding the timer base lock. This also * makes sure that a CPU on the way to stop its tick can not * evaluate the timer wheel. + * + * Spare the IPI for deferrable timers on idle targets though. + * The next busy ticks will take care of it. Except full dynticks + * require special care against races with idle_cpu(), lets deal + * with that later. */ - wake_up_nohz_cpu(cpu); + if (!tbase_get_deferrable(timer->base) || tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) + wake_up_nohz_cpu(cpu); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_timer_on); |