[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status
During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of
memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations
to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually
no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it
to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status.
Converted i386/x86-64/ia64 for now because that was the easiest
way to fix ACPI which also manipulates these flags in its idle
function.
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@novell.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c b/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
index 9e819eb..7c5729d 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
@@ -764,9 +764,9 @@
int idled = 0;
int polling;
- polling = test_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ polling = !!(current_thread_info()->status & TS_POLLING);
if (polling) {
- clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
}
if (!need_resched()) {
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@
ret = apm_bios_call_simple(APM_FUNC_IDLE, 0, 0, &eax);
}
if (polling)
- set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING;
if (!idled)
return 0;
