linux-kernel - Re: [Query]: tick-sched: why don't we stop tick when we are running idle task?

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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:34:23 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Query]: tick-sched: why don't we stop tick when we are running
 idle task?

On 10 April 2014 20:09, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> index 9f8af69..1e2d6b7 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -202,13 +202,16 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now);
>  void __tick_nohz_full_check(void)
>  {
>         struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
> +       unsigned long flags;
>
> +       local_irq_save(flags);

As we need to disable interrupts to read this variable, would it be
better to just remove this completely and use is_idle_task(current)
instead?

>         if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id())) {
> -               if (ts->tick_stopped && !is_idle_task(current)) {
> +               if (ts->tick_stopped && !ts->inidle)) {
>                         if (!can_stop_full_tick())
>                                 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, ktime_get());
>                 }
>         }
> +       local_irq_restore(flags);
>  }

> If you like it I'll push it to Ingo.

Yes please. And thanks for the explanations. It was pretty useful.

I am looking to offload 1 second tick to timekeeping CPUs and so
going through these frameworks. I don't have a working solution yet
(even partially :)). Would send a RFC to you as soon as I get anything
working.

--
viresh
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