Re: [PATCH] timers: more consistently use clock vs timer

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: timers: more consistently use clock vs timer
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Feb 12 15:00:52 CET 2009
> 
> While reviewing the manpages, I noticed I'd missed some clock vs timer sites.
> 
> Make sure that all timer functions call cpu_timer_sample_group() and not
> cpu_clock_sample_group(). This ensures that we enable the process wide timer
> in time, and therefore pay the O(n) thread group cost from the syscall.
> 
> Not doing it here, will result in the first jiffy tick after setting the timer
> doing this, resulting in a very expensive tick (but only once) and a delay in
> actually starting the timer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c |   60 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Applied to tip:timers/urgent, thanks Peter!

	Ingo
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