Re: [PATCH 02/10] nohz: Kick full dynticks timer targets with an empty IPI

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sat Jul 19 2014 - 09:19:03 EST


On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 09:19:51AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 02:44:13AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index 7f3063c..f3e48b8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static bool wake_up_full_nohz_cpu(int cpu)
> > if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) {
> > if (cpu != smp_processor_id() ||
> > tick_nohz_tick_stopped())
> > - tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(cpu);
> > + irq_work_void_on(cpu);
>
> So no, while the previous function name was descriptive, the new one
> leave one wondering.

Yeah, I suppose I can wrap that to some new function: tick_nohz_full_reschedule_cpu()
for example (although that looks a bit like a sched thing).

That said I plan to gather tick stop and tick restart in the same place, in the
end of the interrupt. So in the end we'll have only one tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu()
for all kick uses, and this will just wrapp to irq_work_void_on().
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