simple mod_timer patch

[Steve Modica]

I pulled this back from the 2.6 kernel to reduce some serious contention on the 
timerlist_lock when I had 8 gigabit cards runnings.


diff -u -r1.23 -r1.24
--- linux/linux/kernel/timer.c       2003/08/11 20:16:19     1.23
+++ linux/linux/kernel/timer.c       2003/10/01 21:09:20     1.24
@@ -207,6 +207,14 @@
        int ret;
        unsigned long flags;

+        /*
+        * This is a common optimization triggered by the
+        * networking code - if the timer is re-modified
+        * to be the same thing then just return:
+        */
+        if (timer->expires == expires && timer_pending(timer))
+               return 1;
+
        spin_lock_irqsave(&timerlist_lock, flags);
        timer->expires = expires;
        ret = detach_timer(timer);



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