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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2016-07-04 09:50:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-07-07 10:35:10 +0200 |
| commit | ff00673292bd42a3688b33de47252a6a3c3f424c (patch) | |
| tree | ec7d8a8a099031f7f1551e9adf2e75a90461a4c9 /kernel | |
| parent | 236968383cf5cd48835ff0d8a265e299e220d140 (diff) | |
timers/nohz: Remove pointless tick_nohz_kick_tick() function
This was a failed attempt to optimize the timer expiry in idle, which was
disabled and never revisited. Remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.431073782@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 536ada80f6dd..69abc7bfe80f 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -1092,35 +1092,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) tick_nohz_activate(ts, NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES); } -/* - * When NOHZ is enabled and the tick is stopped, we need to kick the - * tick timer from irq_enter() so that the jiffies update is kept - * alive during long running softirqs. That's ugly as hell, but - * correctness is key even if we need to fix the offending softirq in - * the first place. - * - * Note, this is different to tick_nohz_restart. We just kick the - * timer and do not touch the other magic bits which need to be done - * when idle is left. - */ -static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) -{ -#if 0 - /* Switch back to 2.6.27 behaviour */ - ktime_t delta; - - /* - * Do not touch the tick device, when the next expiry is either - * already reached or less/equal than the tick period. - */ - delta = ktime_sub(hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer), now); - if (delta.tv64 <= tick_period.tv64) - return; - - tick_nohz_restart(ts, now); -#endif -} - static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(void) { struct tick_sched *ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched); @@ -1131,10 +1102,8 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(void) now = ktime_get(); if (ts->idle_active) tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now); - if (ts->tick_stopped) { + if (ts->tick_stopped) tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now); - tick_nohz_kick_tick(ts, now); - } } #else |