From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:17:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Merge branch 'timers/core-v9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/freder... X-Git-Tag: v4.6-rc1~162^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?p=cascardo%2Flinux.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f25184656a00a59e3a953189070d42a749f6aee Merge branch 'timers/core-v9' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz Pull nohz enhancements from Frederic Weisbecker: "Currently in nohz full configs, the tick dependency is checked asynchronously by nohz code from interrupt and context switch for each concerned subsystem with a set of function provided by these. Such functions are made of many conditions and details that can be heavyweight as they are called on fastpath: sched_can_stop_tick(), posix_cpu_timer_can_stop_tick(), perf_event_can_stop_tick()... Thomas suggested a few months ago to make that tick dependency check synchronous. Instead of checking subsystems details from each interrupt to guess if the tick can be stopped, every subsystem that may have a tick dependency should set itself a flag specifying the state of that dependency. This way we can verify if we can stop the tick with a single lightweight mask check on fast path. This conversion from a pull to a push model to implement tick dependency is the core feature of this patchset that is split into: * Nohz wide kick simplification * Improve nohz tracing * Introduce tick dependency mask * Migrate scheduler, posix timers, perf events and sched clock tick dependencies to the tick dependency mask." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 1f25184656a00a59e3a953189070d42a749f6aee