From 495ab9c045e1b0e5c82951b762257fe1c9d81564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:59:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status. Converted i386/x86-64/ia64 for now because that was the easiest way to fix ACPI which also manipulates these flags in its idle function. Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/ia64') diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c index 355d57970ba3..b045c279136c 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c @@ -272,9 +272,9 @@ cpu_idle (void) /* endless idle loop with no priority at all */ while (1) { if (can_do_pal_halt) - clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); + current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING; else - set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); + current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING; if (!need_resched()) { void (*idle)(void); -- cgit v1.2.3