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tick/nohz: Optimize check_tick_dependency() with early return
authorIonut Nechita (Sunlight Linux) <sunlightlinux@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:45:43 +0000 (09:45 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:13:13 +0000 (22:13 +0100)
commit56534673cea7f00d96a64deb58057298fe9f192e
tree7daba94d20a9d26ceb7166944a30dce49673a718
parent3db5306b0bd562ac0fe7eddad26c60ebb6f5fdd4
tick/nohz: Optimize check_tick_dependency() with early return

There is no point in iterating through individual tick dependency bits when
the tick_stop tracepoint is disabled, which is the common case.

When the trace point is disabled, return immediately based on the atomic
value being zero or non-zero, skipping the per-bit evaluation.

This optimization improves the hot path performance of tick dependency
checks across all contexts (idle and non-idle), not just nohz_full CPUs.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ionut Nechita (Sunlight Linux) <sunlightlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128074558.15433-3-sunlightlinux@gmail.com
kernel/time/tick-sched.c