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sched, nohz: Introduce nohz_flags in 'struct rq'
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 01:07:32 +0000 (17:07 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:06:30 +0000 (09:06 +0100)
commit1c792db7f7957e2e34b9a164f08200e36a25dfd0
treed1ab8d9e860e12b31f8553309b79cc65ff380fa5
parent5b680fd61388abb9059fbc8e7a2f60f602bfce15
sched, nohz: Introduce nohz_flags in 'struct rq'

Introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq, which will track these two flags
for now.

NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED keeps track of the tick stopped status that gets set when
the tick is stopped. It will be used to update the nohz idle load balancer data
structures during the first busy tick after the tick is restarted. At this
first busy tick after tickless idle, NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED flag will be reset.
This will minimize the nohz idle load balancer status updates that currently
happen for every tickless exit, making it more scalable when there
are many logical cpu's that enter and exit idle often.

NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK will track the need for nohz idle load balance
on this rq. This will replace the nohz_balance_kick in the rq, which was
not being updated atomically.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.499438999@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/sched.h