From: Martin Schwidefsky 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 --- arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h | 8 ++++++++ arch/s390/kernel/s390_ext.c | 2 ++ arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c | 2 ++ drivers/s390/cio/cio.c | 1 + include/linux/tick.h | 3 +++ kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 13 ++++++++----- 6 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h 2009-08-14 13:17:23.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h 2009-09-18 14:08:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ unsigned long long idle_count; unsigned long long idle_enter; unsigned long long idle_time; + int nohz_delay; }; DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct s390_idle_data, s390_idle); @@ -197,4 +198,11 @@ vtime_start_cpu(); } +static inline int s390_nohz_delay(int cpu) +{ + return per_cpu(s390_idle, cpu).nohz_delay != 0; +} + +#define arch_needs_cpu(cpu) s390_nohz_delay(cpu) + #endif /* _S390_CPUTIME_H */ Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/s390_ext.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/arch/s390/kernel/s390_ext.c 2009-08-14 13:17:23.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/s390_ext.c 2009-09-18 14:08:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ /* Serve timer interrupts first. */ clock_comparator_work(); kstat_cpu(smp_processor_id()).irqs[EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT]++; + if (code != 0x1004) + __get_cpu_var(s390_idle).nohz_delay = 1; index = ext_hash(code); for (p = ext_int_hash[index]; p; p = p->next) { if (likely(p->code == code)) Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c 2009-08-14 13:17:23.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c 2009-09-18 14:08:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ /* 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; Index: quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/cio/cio.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/cio/cio.c 2009-09-12 09:47:15.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/cio/cio.c 2009-09-18 14:08:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); s390_idle_check(); irq_enter(); + __get_cpu_var(s390_idle).nohz_delay = 1; if (S390_lowcore.int_clock >= S390_lowcore.clock_comparator) /* Serve timer interrupts first. */ clock_comparator_work(); Index: quilt-2.6/include/linux/tick.h =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/include/linux/tick.h 2009-08-07 11:09:40.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/include/linux/tick.h 2009-09-18 14:08:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ extern struct tick_sched *tick_get_tick_sched(int cpu); extern void tick_check_idle(int cpu); extern int tick_oneshot_mode_active(void); +# ifndef arch_needs_cpu +# define arch_needs_cpu(cpu) (0) +# endif # else static inline void tick_clock_notify(void) { } static inline int tick_check_oneshot_change(int allow_nohz) { return 0; } Index: quilt-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c 2009-08-07 11:09:40.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c 2009-09-18 14:08:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -272,12 +272,15 @@ last_jiffies = jiffies; } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq)); - /* Get the next timer wheel timer */ - next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies); - delta_jiffies = next_jiffies - last_jiffies; - - if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu)) + if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu) || + arch_needs_cpu(cpu)) { + next_jiffies = last_jiffies + 1; delta_jiffies = 1; + } else { + /* Get the next timer wheel timer */ + next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies); + delta_jiffies = next_jiffies - last_jiffies; + } /* * Do not stop the tick, if we are only one off * or if the cpu is required for rcu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/