[PATCH] tick/broadcast: Reduce lock cacheline contention

2017-01-30 Thread Waiman Long
It was observed that on an Intel x86 system without the ARAT (Always running APIC timer) feature and with fairly large number of CPUs as well as CPUs coming in and out of intel_idle frequently, the lock contention on the tick_broadcast_lock can become significant. To reduce contention, the lock

[PATCH] tick/broadcast: Reduce lock cacheline contention

2017-01-30 Thread Waiman Long
It was observed that on an Intel x86 system without the ARAT (Always running APIC timer) feature and with fairly large number of CPUs as well as CPUs coming in and out of intel_idle frequently, the lock contention on the tick_broadcast_lock can become significant. To reduce contention, the lock