linux-stable/kernel
Arjan van de Ven 3bbb9ec946 timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers
While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time
now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with
round_jiffies() and friends.

Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the
number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption.

This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following
pieces:
* A slack field in the timer struct
* An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack
* A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set
  any explicit slack
* Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to
  group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two'
  (so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers
  will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06 21:50:02 +02:00
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gcov microblaze: Enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL 2009-09-21 14:29:21 +02:00
irq Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
power mm/pm: force GFP_NOIO during suspend/hibernation and resume 2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
time ntp: Make time_adjust static 2010-03-23 17:19:37 +01:00
trace Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c copy_signal() cleanup: kill taskstats_tgid_init() and acct_init_pacct() 2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
async.c
audit.c Fix misspelling of "should" and "shouldn't" in comments. 2010-02-05 12:22:30 +01:00
audit.h Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR 2009-06-24 00:02:38 -04:00
audit_tree.c new helper: iterate_mounts() 2010-03-03 14:07:57 -05:00
audit_watch.c Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes 2009-09-24 03:50:25 -04:00
auditfilter.c Audit: clean up all op= output to include string quoting 2009-06-24 00:00:52 -04:00
auditsc.c Lose the first argument of audit_inode_child() 2010-02-08 14:38:36 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c kbuild: move bounds.h to include/generated 2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
capability.c capabilities: Use RCU to protect task lookup in sys_capget 2009-12-10 09:42:48 +11:00
cgroup.c cgroups: remove events before destroying subsystem state objects 2010-03-12 15:52:37 -08:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c kernel/cpu.c: delete deprecated definition in cpu_up() 2010-03-06 11:26:28 -08:00
cpuset.c sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race 2009-12-06 21:10:56 +01:00
cred-internals.h
cred.c kernel/cred.c: use kmem_cache_free 2010-02-03 10:21:57 +11:00
delayacct.c headers: taskstats_kern.h trim 2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
dma.c
early_res.c early_res: Need to save the allocation name in drop_range_partial() 2010-03-01 23:23:02 -08:00
elfcore.c elf coredump: add extended numbering support 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
freezer.c sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really 2009-07-18 14:19:53 +02:00
futex.c futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully 2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
futex_compat.c futex: Protect pid lookup in compat code with RCU 2009-12-09 14:22:14 +01:00
groups.c groups: move code to kernel/groups.c 2009-06-16 19:47:48 -07:00
hrtimer.c hrtimers: Convert to raw_spinlocks 2009-12-14 23:55:34 +01:00
hung_task.c softlockup: Fix hung_task_check_count sysctl 2009-11-27 06:21:57 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/urgent 2010-03-04 11:47:52 +01:00
itimer.c itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields 2009-11-18 16:32:12 +01:00
kallsyms.c hw-breakpoints: Fix broken hw-breakpoint sample module 2009-11-10 11:23:29 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks mutex: Better control mutex adaptive spinning config 2009-12-03 11:50:11 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems 2010-02-17 11:17:38 +09:00
kfifo.c kfifo: Don't use integer as NULL pointer 2010-02-16 15:11:08 -08:00
kgdb.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-02-04 16:07:41 -08:00
kmod.c kmod: fix resource leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe() 2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface 2010-02-25 17:49:25 +01:00
ksysfs.c Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
kthread.c kthread, sched: Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu 2010-02-09 11:47:39 +01:00
latencytop.c
lockdep.c rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics 2010-03-04 12:07:32 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: BFS cleanup 2009-07-24 10:53:29 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c seq_file: constify seq_operations 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
lockdep_states.h
Makefile elf coredump: replace ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* macros by functions 2010-03-06 11:26:45 -08:00
module.c sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on module dynamic attributes 2010-03-07 17:04:51 -08:00
mutex-debug.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
mutex-debug.h locking: Implement new raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:32 +01:00
mutex.c mutex: Better control mutex adaptive spinning config 2009-12-03 11:50:11 +01:00
mutex.h
notifier.c sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference() 2010-02-25 10:34:26 +01:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
nsproxy.c nsproxy: remove INIT_NSPROXY() 2010-03-12 15:52:40 -08:00
padata.c padata: Allocate the cpumask for the padata instance 2010-03-04 13:30:22 +08:00
panic.c panic: fix panic_timeout accuracy when running on a hypervisor 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
params.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
perf_event.c perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization 2010-03-10 13:22:23 +01:00
pid.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
pid_namespace.c pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: use SEND_SIG_NOINFO instead of force_sig() 2010-03-12 15:52:40 -08:00
pm_qos_params.c pm_qos: clean up racy global "name" variable 2009-10-14 15:31:10 +02:00
posix-cpu-timers.c cpu-timers: Avoid iterating over all threads in fastpath_timer_check() 2010-03-12 22:40:41 +01:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers.c: Don't export local functions 2010-02-05 14:54:10 +01:00
printk.c printk: avoid warning when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: Switch /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask to seq_file 2009-09-20 20:15:40 +02:00
ptrace.c ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically 2010-02-23 13:45:26 -08:00
range.c x86: Change range end to start+size 2010-02-10 17:47:17 -08:00
rcupdate.c rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active 2010-02-26 08:20:46 +01:00
rcutiny.c rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping 2009-11-22 18:58:16 +01:00
rcutorture.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
rcutree.c rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU 2010-02-27 09:53:52 +01:00
rcutree.h rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU 2010-03-11 13:38:01 +01:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU 2010-02-28 09:17:42 +01:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers 2010-02-25 10:34:57 +01:00
relay.c splice: comparing unsigned int < 0 2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
res_counter.c memcg: some modification to softlimit under hierarchical memory reclaim. 2009-10-01 16:11:13 -07:00
resource.c Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-03 09:11:02 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c rtmutes: Convert rtmutex.lock to raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:46:18 -08:00
sched_clock.c sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2009-12-15 09:04:36 +01:00
sched_cpupri.c Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
sched_cpupri.h sched: Convert cpupri lock to raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
sched_debug.c sched: Convert rq->lock to raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep 2010-03-01 09:29:58 +01:00
sched_features.h sched: Discard some old bits 2009-12-09 10:03:07 +01:00
sched_idletask.c sched: Remove the sched_class load_balance methods 2010-01-21 13:40:09 +01:00
sched_rt.c Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:46:18 -08:00
sched_stats.h
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
slow-work-debugfs.c SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs 2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
slow-work.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6 2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
slow-work.h SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs 2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
smp.c generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data 2010-01-18 09:02:59 +01:00
softirq.c hrtimer, softirq: Fix hrtimer->softirq trampoline 2010-02-03 18:17:40 +01:00
softlockup.c softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume 2010-02-01 08:22:32 +01:00
spinlock.c locking: Cleanup the name space completely 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
srcu.c rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitives 2010-02-25 09:40:59 +01:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems 2010-02-17 11:17:38 +09:00
sys.c Add generic sys_olduname() 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
sys_ni.c Add generic sys_ipc wrapper 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
sysctl.c sysctl extern cleanup: lockdep 2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c Switch may_open() and break_lease() to passing O_... 2010-03-03 13:00:21 -05:00
sysctl_check.c ipv4 05/05: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses 2009-12-03 12:14:38 -08:00
taskstats.c const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c time: Clean up warp_clock() 2010-03-12 22:40:42 +01:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers 2010-04-06 21:50:02 +02:00
tracepoint.c trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
tsacct.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
uid16.c headers: utsname.h redux 2009-09-23 18:13:10 -07:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c core: Clean up user return notifers use of per_cpu 2009-12-02 10:22:59 +01:00
user.c sched: Remove USER_SCHED 2010-01-21 13:40:18 +01:00
user_namespace.c
utsname.c utsns: extract creeate_uts_ns() 2009-06-18 13:03:55 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic 2009-11-12 02:04:55 -08:00
wait.c locking, sched: Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classes 2009-08-10 14:43:09 +02:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2009-12-10 09:35:44 -08:00