Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Untangle cpu-load and timekeeping code

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 26 2011 - 15:02:28 EST


On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 20:29 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:14:43PM +0000, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Commit-ID: 18a57c3b43781ea83c3bb21c3add84ba890d5fb3
> > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/18a57c3b43781ea83c3bb21c3add84ba890d5fb3
> > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:30:35 +0100
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:33:23 +0100
> >
> > sched: Untangle cpu-load and timekeeping code
> >
> > Remove the calc_global_load() call from the timekeeping code and make
> > it local to the scheduler.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > +static void calc_global_load(unsigned long __data)
> > {
> > long active;
> >
> > - calc_global_nohz(ticks);
> > + calc_global_nohz();
> >
> > if (time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update + 10))
> > return;
>
> We should not do this checking any more. In normal case,
> it will always return false.
> If it indeed returns true for some reason, we will lose the
> timer forever.

Its needed for the nohz case, arguably we could move it inside
calc_global_nohz().
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