linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/32] nohz/cpuset: Don't stop the tick if posix cpu timers are running

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:59:37 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tim Pepper <lnxninja@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/32] nohz/cpuset: Don't stop the tick if posix cpu
 timers are running

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 17:52 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> If either a per thread or a per process posix cpu timer is running,
> don't stop the tick.
> 
> TODO: restart the tick if it is stopped and a posix cpu timer is
> enqueued. Check we probably need a memory barrier for the per
> process posix timer that can be enqueued from another task
> of the group.


it would

> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
>  #include <linux/ctype.h>
>  #include <linux/ftrace.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/posix-timers.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/tlb.h>
>  #include <asm/irq_regs.h>
> @@ -2491,6 +2492,9 @@ bool cpuset_nohz_can_stop_tick(void)
>  	if (rcu_pending(cpu))
>  		return false;
>  
> +	if (posix_cpu_timers_running(current))
> +		return false;
> +
>  	return true;
>  }

Doesn't belong here, go poke at tick_nohz_can_stop_tick().
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