nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system
goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is
used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an
interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup.
On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes
down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h
index 24b1244..95f3561 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/cputime.h
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
unsigned long long idle_count;
unsigned long long idle_enter;
unsigned long long idle_time;
+ int nohz_delay;
};
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct s390_idle_data, s390_idle);
@@ -198,4 +199,11 @@
vtime_start_cpu();
}
+static inline int s390_nohz_delay(int cpu)
+{
+ return per_cpu(s390_idle, cpu).nohz_delay != 0;
+}
+
+#define arch_needs_cpu(cpu) s390_nohz_delay(cpu)
+
#endif /* _S390_CPUTIME_H */