Re: [GIT PULL v2] nohz: Posix cpu timers handling on full dynticks

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Apr 21 2013 - 05:27:20 EST



* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo,
>
> Please pull this second version of the dynticks handling of posix cpu
> timers from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> timers/nohz-posix-timers-v2
>
> This fixes an issue with a race between run_posix_cpu_timers() and full
> dynticks CPUs that we found while discussing a patch with Olivier Langlois.
>
> As a bonus, it also provides the other side of posix cpu timers handling
> in dynticks with the new helper to check before stopping the tick.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Frederic Weisbecker (3):
> nohz: New APIs to re-evaluate the tick on full dynticks CPUs
> posix_timers: Kick full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is armed
> posix_timers: New API to prevent from stopping the tick when timers
> are running
>
> include/linux/posix-timers.h | 2 +
> include/linux/tick.h | 4 ++
> kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> kernel/time/Kconfig | 1 +
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks Frederic!

Ingo
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