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-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6a3a5b9ff561..4eddbb5ea9c5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -814,6 +814,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
return HRTIMER_RESTART;
}
+static int sched_skew_tick;
+
/**
* tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer
*/
@@ -831,6 +833,14 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
/* Get the next period (per cpu) */
hrtimer_set_expires(&ts->sched_timer, tick_init_jiffy_update());
+ /* Offset the tick to avert xtime_lock contention. */
+ if (sched_skew_tick) {
+ u64 offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1;
+ do_div(offset, num_possible_cpus());
+ offset *= smp_processor_id();
+ hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset);
+ }
+
for (;;) {
hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);
hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer,
@@ -910,3 +920,11 @@ int tick_check_oneshot_change(int allow_nohz)
tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz();
return 0;
}
+
+static int __init skew_tick(char *str)
+{
+ get_option(&str, &sched_skew_tick);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("skew_tick", skew_tick);