Revert "x86, timers: Check for pending timers after (device) interrupts"

This reverts commit 9bcbdd9c58617f1301dd4f17c738bb9bc73aca70.

The real bug producing LatencyTop latencies has been fixed in:

  f5dc375: sched: Update the clock of runqueue select_task_rq() selected

And the commit being reverted here triggers local timer processing
from every device IRQ. If device IRQs come in at a high frequency,
this could cause a performance regression.

The commit being reverted here purely 'fixed' the reported latency
as a side effect, because CPUs were being moved out of idle more
often.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091008064041.67219b13@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
index 3912061..74656d1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
@@ -244,7 +244,6 @@ unsigned int __irq_entry do_IRQ(struct pt_regs *regs)
                                __func__, smp_processor_id(), vector, irq);
        }
 
-       run_local_timers();
        irq_exit();
 
        set_irq_regs(old_regs);
@@ -269,7 +268,6 @@ void smp_generic_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
        if (generic_interrupt_extension)
                generic_interrupt_extension();
 
-       run_local_timers();
        irq_exit();
 
        set_irq_regs(old_regs);

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
index d915d95..ec1de97 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
@@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ void smp_reschedule_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
        ack_APIC_irq();
        inc_irq_stat(irq_resched_count);
-       run_local_timers();
        /*
         * KVM uses this interrupt to force a cpu out of guest mode
         */