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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 03:39:05 +0200
Subject: sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks

The scheduler doesn't yet fully support environments
with a single task running without a periodic tick.

In order to ensure we still maintain the duties of scheduler_tick(),
keep at least 1 tick per second.

This makes sure that we keep the progression of various scheduler
accounting and background maintainance even with a very low granularity.
Examples include cpu load, sched average, CFS entity vruntime,
avenrun and events such as load balancing, amongst other details
handled in sched_class::task_tick().

This limitation will be removed in the future once we get
these individual items to work in full dynticks CPUs.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'include')

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index ebf7095158a9..af008d7bad57 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1862,6 +1862,7 @@ static inline void wake_up_nohz_cpu(int cpu) { }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
 extern bool sched_can_stop_tick(void);
+extern u64 scheduler_tick_max_deferment(void);
 #else
 static inline bool sched_can_stop_tick(void) { return false; }
 #endif
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