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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-03 13:44:44 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2014-04-10 00:19:09 (GMT)
commit35f715cc8726108d325aa563587eb5d8a9b32d91 (patch)
tree4fe672c3472464f4057aaf900d52dc1e7fed1d27 /kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
parent17483359a394fa36cb0ccdb0ee4d0ac4528d935d (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-35f715cc8726108d325aa563587eb5d8a9b32d91.tar.xz
posix-timers: Avoid wakeups when no timers are active
Waking the thread even when no timers are scheduled is useless. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c21
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 2d1963c..4bf82f8 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1331,6 +1331,21 @@ wait_to_die:
return 0;
}
+static inline int __fastpath_timer_check(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ /* tsk == current, ensure it is safe to use ->signal/sighand */
+ if (unlikely(tsk->exit_state))
+ return 0;
+
+ if (!task_cputime_zero(&tsk->cputime_expires))
+ return 1;
+
+ if (!task_cputime_zero(&tsk->signal->cputime_expires))
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
void run_posix_cpu_timers(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned long cpu = smp_processor_id();
@@ -1343,7 +1358,7 @@ void run_posix_cpu_timers(struct task_struct *tsk)
tasklist = per_cpu(posix_timer_tasklist, cpu);
/* check to see if we're already queued */
- if (!tsk->posix_timer_list) {
+ if (!tsk->posix_timer_list && __fastpath_timer_check(tsk)) {
get_task_struct(tsk);
if (tasklist) {
tsk->posix_timer_list = tasklist;
@@ -1355,9 +1370,9 @@ void run_posix_cpu_timers(struct task_struct *tsk)
tsk->posix_timer_list = tsk;
}
per_cpu(posix_timer_tasklist, cpu) = tsk;
+
+ wake_up_process(per_cpu(posix_timer_task, cpu));
}
- /* XXX signal the thread somehow */
- wake_up_process(per_cpu(posix_timer_task, cpu));
}
/*