tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter
authorGaurav Jindal <Gaurav.Jindal@spreadtrum.com>
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:04:20 +0000 (12:04 +0000)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:48:24 +0000 (13:48 +0200)
commit1f3b0f8243cb934307f59bd4d8e43b868e61d4d9
treed90d8e192e06c3f7de17bfb7e74a32269b05c910
parent775be506266a860f141f6b848c92c316c602a94f
tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter

tick_nohz_start_idle is called before checking whether the idle tick can be
stopped. If the tick cannot be stopped, calling tick_nohz_start_idle() is
pointless and just wasting CPU cycles.

Only invoke tick_nohz_start_idle() when can_stop_idle_tick() returns true. A
short one minute observation of the effect on ARM64 shows a reduction of calls
by 1.5% thus optimizing the idle entry sequence.

[tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Co-developed-by: Sanjeev Yadav<sanjeev.yadav@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Jindal<gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714120416.GB21099@gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c