linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/24] nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a non-full-nohz CPU

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Message-ID: <CAFTL4hxSMmu5h1=yVK1qn6NNVYF3WfTZYxPxPTJ=xzibgpkayQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:39:14 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/24] nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a non-full-nohz CPU

2012/12/21 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>:
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 19:32 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c:517:6: error: have_full_nohz_mask undeclared
> (first use in this function)
>
>
>> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
>> @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(ktime_t now)
>>        * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
>>        * jiffies_lock.
>>        */
>> -     if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE))
>> +     if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)
>> +         && !tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
>>               tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
>>  #endif
>>
>> @@ -512,6 +513,10 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts)
>>               return false;
>>       }
>>
>> +     /* If there are full nohz CPUs around, we need to keep the timekeeping duty */
>> +     if (have_full_nohz_mask && tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
>> +             return false;
>> +
>>       return true;
>>  }
>>
>
> Fold in:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> index 4a68b50..00e5682 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ static int __init tick_nohz_full_setup(char *str)
>         return 1;
>  }
>  __setup("full_nohz=", tick_nohz_full_setup);
> +#else
> +#define have_full_nohz_mask 0
>  #endif

Ah thanks! I'm folding your patch.
I can add your SOB, right?
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