[Question]: redundant interrupts for broadcast timer
Leo Yan
leoy at marvell.com
Mon Aug 18 22:31:30 PDT 2014
hi,
We observed the redundant interrupts for broadcast timer, so want to
confirm here firstly; pls see below flow:
1. Thread_A starts a hrtimer with 100ms timeout, and then thread_A will
remove from the runqueue to sleep;
2. The CPU which thread_A runs on will enter idle and call notify
CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, so the CPU will shutdown its local
timer and set broadcast timer's next event with delta for 100ms;
3. After 70ms later, the CPU is waken up by other peripheral's interrupt
and thread_A will be waken up as well; thread_A will cancel the hrtimer
at this point, kernel will remove the timer event from the event queue
but it will not disable broadcast timer;
4. So after 30ms later, the broadcast timer interrupt will be triggered
even though the timer has been cancelled by s/w in step 3.
With current timer framework, is upper behaviour expected? Or maybe we
miss something so that introduce such kind issue?
And i'm interesting now if have some idea to optimize such issue, very
appreciate for suggestion and comment.
Thanks,
Leo Yan
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