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Commit 00147449 authored by Woodruff, Richard's avatar Woodruff, Richard Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming



In my device I get many interrupts from a high speed USB device in a very
short period of time.  The system spends a lot of time reprogramming the
hardware timer which is in a slower timing domain as compared to the CPU. 
This results in the CPU spending a huge amount of time waiting for the
timer posting to be done.  All of this reprogramming is useless as the
wake up time has not changed.

As measured using ETM trace this drops my reprogramming penalty from
almost 60% CPU load down to 15% during high interrupt rate.  I can send
traces to show this.

Suppress setting of duplicate timer event when timer already stopped. 
Timer programming can be very costly and can result in long cpu stall/wait
times.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[tglx@linutronix.de: move the check to the right place and avoid raising
		     the softirq for nothing]

Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent fa116ea3
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