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linux/kernel/time
Woodruff, Richard 001474491f nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming
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]
[tglx@linutronix.de: move the check to the right place and avoid raising
		     the softirq for nothing]

Signed-off-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12 16:55:31 +01:00
..
clockevents.c clockevents: make device shutdown robust 2008-09-16 13:47:02 -07:00
clocksource.c clocksource: keep track of original clocksource frequency 2008-08-21 09:50:23 +02:00
jiffies.c clocksource: keep track of original clocksource frequency 2008-08-21 09:50:23 +02:00
Kconfig Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Makefile
ntp.c Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2 2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter() 2008-10-17 18:13:38 +02:00
tick-common.c clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online 2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
tick-internal.h NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter() 2008-10-17 18:13:38 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information 2008-09-09 22:20:01 +02:00
tick-sched.c nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming 2008-12-12 16:55:31 +01:00
timekeeping.c time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them 2008-12-04 08:43:02 +01:00
timer_list.c Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2 2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
timer_stats.c