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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-04-20 17:11:50 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-04-22 20:29:07 +0200
commit99e5ada9407cc19d7c4c05ce2165f20dc46fc093 (patch)
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nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ... So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing up with any current lock scenario. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 9ad35005f1cb..dd09def88567 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1896,6 +1896,8 @@ static void finish_task_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
kprobe_flush_task(prev);
put_task_struct(prev);
}
+
+ tick_nohz_task_switch(current);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP