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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-09-11 12:43:13 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-09-25 13:53:10 +0200
commitea8117478918a4734586d35ff530721b682425be (patch)
treeccbaaa51ffd91f34fc0a4f5c5dbad34452ddc354 /drivers/idle
parent3150398626466c6cc626732f60bc901d58f40677 (diff)
downloadlinux-ea8117478918a4734586d35ff530721b682425be.tar.gz
sched, idle: Fix the idle polling state logic
Mike reported that commit 7d1a9417 ("x86: Use generic idle loop")
regressed several workloads and caused excessive reschedule
interrupts.

The patch in question failed to notice that the x86 code had an
inverted sense of the polling state versus the new generic code (x86:
default polling, generic: default !polling).

Fix the two prominent x86 mwait based idle drivers and introduce a few
new generic polling helpers (fixing the wrong smp_mb__after_clear_bit
usage).

Also switch the idle routines to using tif_need_resched() which is an
immediate TIF_NEED_RESCHED test as opposed to need_resched which will
end up being slightly different.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nc03imb0etuefmzybzj7sprf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/idle')
-rw-r--r--drivers/idle/intel_idle.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
index fa6964d8681a..f116d664b473 100644
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	if (!(lapic_timer_reliable_states & (1 << (cstate))))
 		clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, &cpu);
 
-	if (!need_resched()) {
+	if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
 
 		__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
 		smp_mb();