nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:11:50 +0000 (17:11 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:29:07 +0000 (20:29 +0200)
commit99e5ada9407cc19d7c4c05ce2165f20dc46fc093
tree6d39bf6095e18b82f78b3cc405d49fbb8836b299
parent5811d9963e26146898a24b535b301f7654257f8a
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch

When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties
of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for
the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ...

So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets
scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this
stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing
up with any current lock scenario.

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>
include/linux/tick.h
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.c