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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/tile
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/tile')
-rw-r--r--arch/tile/kernel/process.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
index 53ac89595ab1..4c1ac6e5347a 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
85 85
86 /* endless idle loop with no priority at all */ 86 /* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
87 while (1) { 87 while (1) {
88 tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(); 88 tick_nohz_idle_enter();
89 rcu_idle_enter();
89 while (!need_resched()) { 90 while (!need_resched()) {
90 if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) 91 if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
91 BUG(); /* no HOTPLUG_CPU */ 92 BUG(); /* no HOTPLUG_CPU */
@@ -105,7 +106,8 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
105 local_irq_enable(); 106 local_irq_enable();
106 current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING; 107 current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING;
107 } 108 }
108 tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(); 109 rcu_idle_exit();
110 tick_nohz_idle_exit();
109 preempt_enable_no_resched(); 111 preempt_enable_no_resched();
110 schedule(); 112 schedule();
111 preempt_disable(); 113 preempt_disable();