From c1ad348b452aacd784fb97403d03d71723c72ee1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:08:58 +0000 Subject: tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases. Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX. Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the nohz code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: John Stultz Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/rcutree.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/rcutree.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h index d2e583a6aaca..db2e31beaae7 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcutree.h +++ b/include/linux/rcutree.h @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ void rcu_note_context_switch(void); #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL -int rcu_needs_cpu(unsigned long *delta_jiffies); +int rcu_needs_cpu(u64 basem, u64 *nextevt); #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL */ void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void); -- cgit v1.2.3