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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-03 08:44:44 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2012-03-07 16:15:00 -0600
commit0abfdf1e36c2d224fbe2e13584e593e8df3c513f (patch)
tree2f05b27d9eb47b7df2687b8ba0d93124a73565d8 /kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
parent90de63bdd69c5de9d3da6555c1fa13a95d80e0a0 (diff)
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 fb350d745241..1d4c6096395a 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1436,6 +1436,21 @@ 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();
@@ -1448,7 +1463,7 @@ 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;
@@ -1460,9 +1475,9 @@ 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));
}
/*