timers: Do not IPI for deferrable timers
authorAnna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Fri, 1 Dec 2023 09:26:28 +0000 (10:26 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:49:38 +0000 (16:49 +0100)
commitd124c3393e798b1fb142ee728d5c8976d11e722d
tree458ebf8804f3a74fd641a4dbe5ad8c39af5bab60
parentb573c73101d8786446535b2ab28cbc8907bda9a9
timers: Do not IPI for deferrable timers

Deferrable timers do not prevent CPU from going idle and are not taken into
account on idle path. Sending an IPI to a remote CPU when a new first
deferrable timer was enqueued will wake up the remote CPU but nothing will
be done regarding the deferrable timers.

Drop IPI completely when a new first deferrable timer was enqueued.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201092654.34614-7-anna-maria@linutronix.de
kernel/time/timer.c