linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] tick: Conditionally build nohz specific code in tick handler

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Message-Id: <1350320354-17214-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:59:14 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] tick: Conditionally build nohz specific code in tick handler

This optimize a bit the high res tick sched handler.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 68a873a..766d4c4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(ktime_t now)
 
 static void tick_sched_handle(struct tick_sched *ts, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
 	/*
 	 * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
 	 * the watchdog as we might not schedule for a really long
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ static void tick_sched_handle(struct tick_sched *ts, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		if (is_idle_task(current))
 			ts->idle_jiffies++;
 	}
+#endif
 	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
 	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
 }
-- 
1.7.5.4

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