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Subject: [PATCH v8 03/25] timer: Do not IPI for deferrable timers
Date:   Wed,  4 Oct 2023 14:34:32 +0200
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Deferrable timers do not prevent CPU from going idle and are not taken into
account on idle path. Sending an IPI to a remote CPU when a new first
deferrable timer was enqueued will wake up the remote CPU and but nothing
will be done regarding the deferrable timers.

Drop IPI completely when a new first deferrable timer was enqueued.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
---
v8: Update comment

v6: new patch
---
 kernel/time/timer.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 63a8ce7177dd..7d06351aff54 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -571,18 +571,15 @@ static int calc_wheel_index(unsigned long expires, unsigned long clk,
 static void
 trigger_dyntick_cpu(struct timer_base *base, struct timer_list *timer)
 {
-	if (!is_timers_nohz_active())
-		return;
-
 	/*
-	 * TODO: This wants some optimizing similar to the code below, but we
-	 * will do that when we switch from push to pull for deferrable timers.
+	 * Deferrable timers do not prevent CPU from entering dynticks and are
+	 * not taken into account on idle/nohz_full path. An IPI when a new
+	 * deferrable timer is enqueued will wake up the remote CPU but nothing
+	 * will be done with the deferrable timer base. Therefore skip remote
+	 * IPI for deferrable timers completely.
 	 */
-	if (timer->flags & TIMER_DEFERRABLE) {
-		if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(base->cpu))
-			wake_up_nohz_cpu(base->cpu);
+	if (!is_timers_nohz_active() || timer->flags & TIMER_DEFERRABLE)
 		return;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * We might have to IPI the remote CPU if the base is idle and the
-- 
2.39.2