From 4c36a5dec25fb344ad76b11860da3a8b50bd1248 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:21:24 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] round_jiffies infrastructure Introduce a round_jiffies() function as well as a round_jiffies_relative() function. These functions round a jiffies value to the next whole second. The primary purpose of this rounding is to cause all "we don't care exactly when" timers to happen at the same jiffy. This avoids multiple timers firing within the second for no real reason; with dynamic ticks these extra timers cause wakeups from deep sleep CPU sleep states and thus waste power. The exact wakeup moment is skewed by the cpu number, to avoid all cpus from waking up at the exact same time (and hitting the same lock/cachelines there) [akpm@osdl.org: fix variable type] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/timer.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h index c982304dbaf..eeef6643d4c 100644 --- a/include/linux/timer.h +++ b/include/linux/timer.h @@ -98,4 +98,10 @@ extern void run_local_timers(void); struct hrtimer; extern int it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *); +unsigned long __round_jiffies(unsigned long j, int cpu); +unsigned long __round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j, int cpu); +unsigned long round_jiffies(unsigned long j); +unsigned long round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j); + + #endif -- cgit v1.2.3