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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-11-17 12:48:14 -0500
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-12-11 13:31:57 -0500
commit1268fbc746ea1cd279886a740dcbad4ba5232225 (patch)
treedc0ff36b4114992a3f67479e25132f5e99f36b9e /arch/sparc
parentb58bdccaa8d908e0f71dae396468a0d3f7bb3125 (diff)
nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c
index 4a0e7d79cb92..39d8b05201a2 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -95,12 +95,14 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
95 set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); 95 set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
96 96
97 while(1) { 97 while(1) {
98 tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(); 98 tick_nohz_idle_enter();
99 rcu_idle_enter();
99 100
100 while (!need_resched() && !cpu_is_offline(cpu)) 101 while (!need_resched() && !cpu_is_offline(cpu))
101 sparc64_yield(cpu); 102 sparc64_yield(cpu);
102 103
103 tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(); 104 rcu_idle_exit();
105 tick_nohz_idle_exit();
104 106
105 preempt_enable_no_resched(); 107 preempt_enable_no_resched();
106 108