On 15 April 2014 18:14, Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure but check out the static_key_false() in the implementation of > tick_nohz_full_enabled(). > That's where the magic hides.
> No problem, the jump label/static key code is quite tricky. And its use > can be easily missed, as in here. > > Also its unfamous API naming (static_key_true/static_key_true) that is > anything but intuitive. That was tricky enough to be missed on first look :) Okay here is the answer to what you asked earlier: >> In this case probably we can move !can_stop_full_tick() as well to the >> wrapper ? > > Do you mean moving all the code of __tick_nohz_task_switch() to > tick_nohz_task_switch()? > I much prefer we don't do that. This is going to make can_stop_full_tick() a > publicly > visible nohz internal. And it may uglify tick.h as well. I probably asked the wrong question, I meant tick_nohz_tick_stopped() instead of !can_stop_full_tick(). Or, can we make the code more efficient by avoiding a branch by doing this: diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h index 1065a51..12632cc 100644 --- a/include/linux/tick.h +++ b/include/linux/tick.h @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_full_check(void) static inline void tick_nohz_task_switch(void) { - if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) + if (tick_nohz_full_enabled() && tick_nohz_tick_stopped()) __tick_nohz_task_switch(); } diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 45037c4..904e09b 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void) local_irq_save(flags); - if (tick_nohz_tick_stopped() && !can_stop_full_tick()) + if (!can_stop_full_tick()) tick_nohz_full_kick(); local_irq_restore(flags); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/