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SubjectRe: [resend] Timer broadcast question
On 02/19/2013 07:10 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> I am working on identifying the different wakeup sources from the
>> interrupts and I have a question regarding the timer broadcast.
>>
>> The broadcast timer is setup to the next event and that will wake up any
>> idle cpu belonging to the "broadcast cpumask", right ?
>>
>> The cpu which has been woken up will look for each cpu the next-event
>> and send an IPI to wake it up.
>>
>> Although, it is possible the sender of this IPI may not be concerned by
>> the timer expiration and has been woken up just for sending the IPI, right ?
>
> Correct.
>
>> If this is correct, is it possible to setup the timer irq affinity to a
>> cpu which will be concerned by the timer expiration ? so we prevent an
>> unnecessary wake up for a cpu.
>
> It is possible, but we never implemented it.
>
> If we go there, we want to make that conditional on a property flag,
> because some interrupt controllers especially on x86 only allow to
> move the affinity from interrupt context, which is pointless.

Thanks Thomas for your quick answer. I will write a RFC patchset.

-- Daniel

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