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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-01-25 21:08:29 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 21:08:29 +0100
commit8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f (patch)
treea9ac9063eca53e4d0110e8086f55241ea70ba993 /include/linux/hrtimer.h
parent02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 (diff)
downloadlinux-8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f.tar.gz
sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick. The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair' by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on. The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency. Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the sched_latency period is important. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/hrtimer.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hrtimer.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
index 7a9398e19704..ecc8e2685e2b 100644
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -217,6 +217,11 @@ static inline ktime_t hrtimer_cb_get_time(struct hrtimer *timer)
return timer->base->get_time();
}
+static inline int hrtimer_is_hres_active(struct hrtimer *timer)
+{
+ return timer->base->cpu_base->hres_active;
+}
+
/*
* The resolution of the clocks. The resolution value is returned in
* the clock_getres() system call to give application programmers an
@@ -248,6 +253,10 @@ static inline ktime_t hrtimer_cb_get_time(struct hrtimer *timer)
return timer->base->softirq_time;
}
+static inline int hrtimer_is_hres_active(struct hrtimer *timer)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif
extern ktime_t ktime_get(void);