nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:43:57 +0000 (15:43 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:28:04 +0000 (20:28 +0200)
commit9014c45d9e2dbb935498a5f1d106e220e8624643
tree2db8ead01d05d5a2a85904b251b2966b2c56dfca
parentff442c51f6543378cf23107c75b7949dc64a9119
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick

Implement the full dynticks kick that is performed from
IPIs sent by various subsystems (scheduler, posix timers, ...)
when they want to notify about a new event that may
reconsider the dependency on the tick.

Most of the time, such an event end up restarting the tick.

(Part of the design with subsystems providing *_can_stop_tick()
helpers suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago).

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>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c