[PATCH 11/16] xen: sched: on Credit2, don't reprogram the timer if idle

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

as other schedulers are doing already: if the idle vcpu
is picked and scheduled, there is no need to reprogram the
scheduler timer to fire and invoke csched2_schedule()
again in future.

Tickling or external events will serve as pokes, when
necessary, but until we can, we should just stay idle.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Tianyang Chen <tiche@seas.upenn.edu>
Suggested-by: George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu>
---
Cc: George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu>
Cc: Tianyang Chen <tiche@seas.upenn.edu>
---
 xen/common/sched_credit2.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
index 2fd4175..4ff26c9 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
@@ -1540,8 +1540,12 @@ csched2_runtime(const struct scheduler *ops, int cpu, struct csched2_vcpu *snext
     struct csched2_runqueue_data *rqd = RQD(ops, cpu);
     struct list_head *runq = &rqd->runq;
 
+    /*
+     * If we're idle, just stay so. Others (or external events)
+     * will poke us when necessary.
+     */
     if ( is_idle_vcpu(snext->vcpu) )
-        return CSCHED2_MAX_TIMER;
+        return -1;
 
     /* General algorithm:
      * 1) Run until snext's credit will be 0


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