The patch titled
Make mce polling timers 1 sec jiffy aligned
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
make-mce-polling-timers-1-sec-jiffy-aligned.patch
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Subject: Make mce polling timers 1 sec jiffy aligned
From: Venki Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
round_jiffies() for i386 and x86-64 non-critical/corrected MCE polling.
This helps to reduce the frequency at which the CPU must be taken out of a
lower-power state.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c | 9 ++++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c~make-mce-polling-timers-1-sec-jiffy-aligned
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c
---
a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c~make-mce-polling-timers-1-sec-jiffy-aligned
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(mce_work, mc
static void mce_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{
on_each_cpu(mce_checkregs, NULL, 1, 1);
- schedule_delayed_work(&mce_work, MCE_RATE);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&mce_work, round_jiffies_relative(MCE_RATE));
}
static int __init init_nonfatal_mce_checker(void)
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int __init init_nonfatal_mce_chec
/*
* Check for non-fatal errors every MCE_RATE s
*/
- schedule_delayed_work(&mce_work, MCE_RATE);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&mce_work, round_jiffies_relative(MCE_RATE));
printk(KERN_INFO "Machine check exception polling timer started.\n");
return 0;
}
diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c~make-mce-polling-timers-1-sec-jiffy-aligned
arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c~make-mce-polling-timers-1-sec-jiffy-aligned
+++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
@@ -378,7 +378,8 @@ static void mcheck_timer(struct work_str
next_interval = min(next_interval*2, check_interval*HZ);
}
- schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work, next_interval);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work,
+ round_jiffies_relative(next_interval));
}
/*
@@ -441,7 +442,8 @@ static __init int periodic_mcheck_init(v
{
next_interval = check_interval * HZ;
if (next_interval)
- schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work, next_interval);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work,
+ round_jiffies_relative(next_interval));
idle_notifier_register(&mce_idle_notifier);
return 0;
}
@@ -731,7 +733,8 @@ static void mce_restart(void)
on_each_cpu(mce_init, NULL, 1, 1);
next_interval = check_interval * HZ;
if (next_interval)
- schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work, next_interval);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work,
+ round_jiffies_relative(next_interval));
}
static struct sysdev_class mce_sysclass = {
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
make-usb-autosuspend-timer-1-sec-jiffy-aligned.patch
make-mce-polling-timers-1-sec-jiffy-aligned.patch
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