Re: [PATCH tip/core/timers 2/4] timers: Reduce __run_timers()latency for empty list

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Wed Jan 15 2014 - 15:33:11 EST


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:38:58PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> forgot to mention...
>
> On 01/14, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > +static bool catchup_timer_jiffies(struct tvec_base *base)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
> > + if (!base->all_timers) {
> > + base->timer_jiffies = jiffies;
> > + return 1;
> > + }
> > +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> Do we really want ifdef?
>
> This check is cheap, and !CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL case looks a bit
> strange because we still update ->all_timers for no reason.

There's an easy way to improve this: instead of using an ifdef, put
"IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) && " in the if condition.

- Josh Triplett
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