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authorDenys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>2009-03-17 14:32:59 -0400
committerDenys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>2009-03-17 14:32:59 -0400
commit709c4d66e0b107ca606941b988bad717c0b45d9b (patch)
tree37ee08b1eb308f3b2b6426d5793545c38396b838 /recipes/linux/linux-omap-2.6.28/tick-schedc-suppress-needless-timer-reprogramming.patch
parentfa6cd5a3b993f16c27de4ff82b42684516d433ba (diff)
rename packages/ to recipes/ per earlier agreement
See links below for more details: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/21326 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/21816 Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org> Acked-by: Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net> Acked-by: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org> Acked-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <hrw@openembedded.org> Acked-by: Koen Kooi <koen@openembedded.org> Acked-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/recipes/linux/linux-omap-2.6.28/tick-schedc-suppress-needless-timer-reprogramming.patch b/recipes/linux/linux-omap-2.6.28/tick-schedc-suppress-needless-timer-reprogramming.patch
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+++ b/recipes/linux/linux-omap-2.6.28/tick-schedc-suppress-needless-timer-reprogramming.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+From: "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
+
+In my device I get many interrupts from a high speed USB device in a very
+short period of time. The system spends a lot of time reprogramming the
+hardware timer which is in a slower timing domain as compared to the CPU.
+This results in the CPU spending a huge amount of time waiting for the
+timer posting to be done. All of this reprogramming is useless as the
+wake up time has not changed.
+
+As measured using ETM trace this drops my reprogramming penalty from
+almost 60% CPU load down to 15% during high interrupt rate. I can send
+traces to show this.
+
+
+Suppress setting of duplicate timer event when timer already stopped.
+Timer programming can be very costly and can result in long cpu stall/wait
+times.
+
+[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
+Signed-off-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
+Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+
+On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:31:29 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
+
+> No, we only fall trrough into raise_softirq() when the reprogram code
+> detects that the event already expired. So you change the flow :)
+>
+> It does also not deal with delta_jiffies >= NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA :(
+>
+> I have a closer look on that.
+
+Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
+---
+
+ kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
+ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff -puN kernel/time/tick-sched.c~tick-schedc-suppress-needless-timer-reprogramming kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c~tick-schedc-suppress-needless-timer-reprogramming
++++ a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+@@ -282,6 +282,17 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
+ /* Schedule the tick, if we are at least one jiffie off */
+ if ((long)delta_jiffies >= 1) {
+
++ /*
++ * calculate the expiry time for the next timer wheel
++ * timer
++ */
++ expires = ktime_add_ns(last_update, tick_period.tv64 *
++ delta_jiffies);
++
++ /* Skip reprogram of event if its not changed */
++ if (ts->tick_stopped && ktime_equal(expires, dev->next_event))
++ goto out2;
++
+ if (delta_jiffies > 1)
+ cpu_set(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
+ /*
+@@ -332,12 +343,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+- /*
+- * calculate the expiry time for the next timer wheel
+- * timer
+- */
+- expires = ktime_add_ns(last_update, tick_period.tv64 *
+- delta_jiffies);
++ /* Mark expiries */
+ ts->idle_expires = expires;
+
+ if (ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES) {
+@@ -356,6 +362,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
+ tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_get());
+ cpu_clear(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
+ }
++out2:
+ raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+ out:
+ ts->next_jiffies = next_jiffies;
+_