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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/timer.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig index 3ce6e8c5f3fc..f448513a45ed 100644 --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ config NO_HZ_FULL endchoice config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL - bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default" + bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default (except CPU 0)" depends on NO_HZ_FULL help If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index c0d8898fed98..a71bdfdb51e7 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -960,8 +960,15 @@ void add_timer_on(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu) * with the timer by holding the timer base lock. This also * makes sure that a CPU on the way to stop its tick can not * evaluate the timer wheel. + * + * Spare the IPI for deferrable timers on idle targets though. + * The next busy ticks will take care of it. Except full dynticks + * require special care against races with idle_cpu(), lets deal + * with that later. */ - wake_up_nohz_cpu(cpu); + if (!tbase_get_deferrable(timer->base) || tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) + wake_up_nohz_cpu(cpu); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_timer_on); |