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Commit 3c5d92a0 authored by Martin Schwidefsky's avatar Martin Schwidefsky Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu



Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system
goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is
used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an
interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup.

On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes
down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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