From dce48a84adf1806676319f6f480e30a6daa012f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:43:41 +0200 Subject: sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values. Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls do_timer(). [ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index b4c38bc8049c..6eb4892efe45 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts); extern int nr_processes(void); extern unsigned long nr_running(void); extern unsigned long nr_uninterruptible(void); -extern unsigned long nr_active(void); extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void); +extern void calc_global_load(void); extern unsigned long get_parent_ip(unsigned long addr); -- cgit v1.2.2