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clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew
authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:02:10 +0000 (21:02 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:45:58 +0000 (21:45 +0200)
commit405c32589d1a7d4b56add88f8817a789773d2940
tree7c593610e47096dd6592b8dbfe166428cc079ed6
parentcfb58a102240053c71d94966df6c1d1215c00199
clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew

Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
xtime_lock.

Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
many-core systems.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c