From 7a14ce1d8c1d3a6118d406e64eaf9aa70375e085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:43:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] nohz: reduce jiffies polling overhead Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index b854a895591..cb75394ed00 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now) unsigned long ticks = 0; ktime_t delta; + /* + * Do a quick check without holding xtime_lock: + */ + delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update); + if (delta.tv64 < tick_period.tv64) + return; + /* Reevalute with xtime_lock held */ write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);