rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ use timer rather than hrtimer
authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:13:19 +0000 (17:13 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:55:19 +0000 (20:55 -0700)
The RCU_FAST_NO_HZ facility uses an hrtimer to wake up a CPU when
it is allowed to go into dyntick-idle mode, which is almost always
cancelled soon after.  This is not what hrtimers are good at, so
this commit switches to the timer wheel.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Simple merge