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clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew

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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>
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Arjan van de Ven 2010-07-27 21:02:10 -07:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 2b08de0073
commit af5ab277de
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kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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@ -780,7 +780,6 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
{
struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
ktime_t now = ktime_get();
u64 offset;
/*
* Emulate tick processing via per-CPU hrtimers:
@ -790,10 +789,6 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
/* Get the next period (per cpu) */
hrtimer_set_expires(&ts->sched_timer, tick_init_jiffy_update());
offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1;
do_div(offset, num_possible_cpus());
offset *= smp_processor_id();
hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset);
for (;;) {
hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);