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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-11-17 18:48:14 +0100
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-12-11 10:31:57 -0800
commit1268fbc746ea1cd279886a740dcbad4ba5232225 (patch)
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nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tick.h47
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index 327434a05757..ab8be90b5cc9 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -122,45 +122,8 @@ static inline int tick_oneshot_mode_active(void) { return 0; }
#endif /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS */
# ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-extern void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(void);
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
-{
- local_irq_disable();
- __tick_nohz_idle_enter();
- local_irq_enable();
-}
+extern void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void);
extern void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void);
-
-/*
- * Call this pair of function if the arch doesn't make any use
- * of RCU in-between. You won't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and
- * rcu_idle_exit().
- * Otherwise you need to call tick_nohz_idle_enter() and tick_nohz_idle_exit()
- * and explicitly tell RCU about the window around the place the CPU enters low
- * power mode where no RCU use is made. This is done by calling rcu_idle_enter()
- * after the last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep and by calling
- * rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU woke up.
- */
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(void)
-{
- /*
- * Also call rcu_idle_enter() in the irq disabled section even
- * if it disables irq itself.
- * Just an optimization that prevents from an interrupt happening
- * between it and __tick_nohz_idle_enter() to lose time to help
- * completing a grace period while we could be in extended grace
- * period already.
- */
- local_irq_disable();
- __tick_nohz_idle_enter();
- rcu_idle_enter();
- local_irq_enable();
-}
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(void)
-{
- rcu_idle_exit();
- tick_nohz_idle_exit();
-}
extern void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void);
extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void);
extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
@@ -168,14 +131,6 @@ extern u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
# else
static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void) { }
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(void)
-{
- rcu_idle_enter();
-}
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(void)
-{
- rcu_idle_exit();
-}
static inline ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void)
{