From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:20:23 +0000 (+0100) Subject: nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc5~78^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae99286b4f1be7788f2d6947c66a91dbd6351eec;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression. While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw themself. Disable it for now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 5bbb1044f84..342fc9ccab4 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -568,6 +568,9 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) */ static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(int cpu) { +#if 0 + /* Switch back to 2.6.27 behaviour */ + struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); ktime_t delta, now; @@ -584,6 +587,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(int cpu) return; tick_nohz_restart(ts, now); +#endif } #else