hrtimer_start() enforces a timer interrupt if the timer is already expired. Get rid of the checks and the forward loop. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 19 ++++--------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Index: tip/kernel/time/tick-sched.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ tip/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -696,11 +696,9 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick if (ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES) { hrtimer_start(&ts->sched_timer, expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED); - /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */ - if (hrtimer_active(&ts->sched_timer)) - goto out; + goto out; } else if (!tick_program_event(expires, 0)) - goto out; + goto out; /* * We are past the event already. So we crossed a * jiffie boundary. Update jiffies and raise the @@ -888,8 +886,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tic if (ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES) { hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED); - /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */ - if (hrtimer_active(&ts->sched_timer)) break; } else { if (!tick_program_event( @@ -1167,15 +1163,8 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void) hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset); } - for (;;) { - hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period); - hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer, - HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED); - /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */ - if (hrtimer_active(&ts->sched_timer)) - break; - now = ktime_get(); - } + hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period); + hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED); #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON if (tick_nohz_enabled) { -- 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/