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nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu

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Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system
goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is
used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an
interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup.

On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes
down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Martin Schwidefsky
2009-09-29 14:25:16 +02:00
committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent eed3b9cf3f
commit 3c5d92a0cf
6 changed files with 24 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ void vtime_stop_cpu(void)
/* Wait for external, I/O or machine check interrupt. */
psw.mask = psw_kernel_bits | PSW_MASK_WAIT | PSW_MASK_IO | PSW_MASK_EXT;
idle->nohz_delay = 0;
/* Check if the CPU timer needs to be reprogrammed. */
if (vq->do_spt) {
__u64 vmax = VTIMER_MAX_SLICE;