Re: [patch 08/39] hrtimer: Make offset update smarter

[Preeti U Murthy]

On 04/15/2015 02:38 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>On every tick/hrtimer interrupt we update the offset variables of the
>>clock bases. That's silly because these offsets change very seldom.
>>
>>Add a sequence counter to the time keeping code which keeps track of
>>the offset updates (clock_was_set()). Have a sequence cache in the
>>hrtimer cpu bases to evaluate whether the offsets must be updated or
>>not. This allows us later to avoid pointless cacheline pollution.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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