linux-gen: timer: reduce inline timer overhead

Reduce inline timer overhead by not polling timers until at least one
timer pool has been created.

Signed-off-by: Matias Elo <matias.elo@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bill Fischofer <bill.fischofer@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_timer_internal.h b/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_timer_internal.h
index 8dda9e6ff..02ba92e0d 100644
--- a/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_timer_internal.h
+++ b/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_timer_internal.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <odp_buffer_internal.h>
 #include <odp_pool_internal.h>
 #include <odp/api/timer.h>
+#include <odp_global_data.h>
 
 /* Minimum number of scheduling rounds between checking timer pools. */
 #define CONFIG_TIMER_RUN_RATELIMIT_ROUNDS 1
@@ -38,22 +39,12 @@ typedef struct {
 	odp_timer_t timer;
 } odp_timeout_hdr_t;
 
-/*
- * Whether to run timer pool processing 'inline' (on worker cores) or in
- * background threads (thread-per-timerpool).
- *
- * If the application will use both scheduler and timer this flag is set
- * to true, otherwise false. This application conveys this information via
- * the 'not_used' bits in odp_init_t which are passed to odp_global_init().
- */
-extern odp_bool_t inline_timers;
-
 unsigned _timer_run(void);
 
 /* Static inline wrapper to minimize modification of schedulers. */
 static inline unsigned timer_run(void)
 {
-	return inline_timers ? _timer_run() : 0;
+	return odp_global_rw->inline_timers ? _timer_run() : 0;
 }
 
 #endif