On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 08:58:11PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> snooze_loop is done often in any system which has fair bit of
> idle time. So it qualifies for even micro-optimizations. 
> 
> When breaking the snooze due to timeout, TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is cleared
> twice. Clearing the bit invokes atomics. Avoid double clear and thereby
> avoid one atomic write.
> 
> dev->poll_time_limit indicates whether the loop was broken due to
> timeout. Use that instead of defining a new variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 5 ++++-
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c 
> b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
> index 9ebedd972df0..b89e7111e7b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
> @@ -95,7 +95,10 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>  
>       HMT_medium();
>       ppc64_runlatch_on();
> -     clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
> +
> +     /* Avoid double clear when breaking */
> +     if (!dev->poll_time_limit)
> +             clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
>  
>       local_irq_disable();
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c 
> b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
> index f68c65f1d023..864dd5d6e627 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
> @@ -64,7 +64,10 @@ int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct 
> cpuidle_driver *drv,
>       }
>  
>       HMT_medium();
> -     clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
> +
> +       /* Avoid double clear when breaking */
> +     if (!dev->poll_time_limit)
> +             clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
>  
>       raw_local_irq_disable();
>  
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 

LGTM

Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <[email protected]>


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