Re: [PATCH v6 01/10] cpuidle/poll_state: poll via smp_cond_load_relaxed()

[Christoph Lameter (Ampere)]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024, Ankur Arora wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c b/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c
> index 9b6d90a72601..532e4ed19e0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c
> @@ -21,21 +21,21 @@ static int __cpuidle poll_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>
> 	raw_local_irq_enable();
> 	if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
> -		unsigned int loop_count = 0;
> +		unsigned int loop_count;
> 		u64 limit;

loop_count is only used in the while loop below. So the declaration 
could be placed below the while.

> 		limit = cpuidle_poll_time(drv, dev);
>
> 		while (!need_resched()) {
> -			cpu_relax();
> -			if (loop_count++ < POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT)
> -				continue;
> -
> 			loop_count = 0;
> 			if (local_clock_noinstr() - time_start > limit) {
> 				dev->poll_time_limit = true;
> 				break;
> 			}

Looks ok otherwise

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>