From af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:02:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 813993b5fb61..74644ccd786c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -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);