nohz: Allow to check if remote CPU tick is stopped
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 04:17:25 +0000 (05:17 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:49:08 +0000 (09:49 +0100)
commit22ab8bc02a5f6e8ffc418759894f7a6b0b632331
treed911f27f0661ad8390190da9910d8751287e55f8
parenta364298359e74a414857bbbf3b725564feb22d09
nohz: Allow to check if remote CPU tick is stopped

This check is racy but provides a good heuristic to determine whether
a CPU may need a remote tick or not.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-4-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/tick.h
kernel/time/tick-sched.c