From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:02:10 +0000 (-0700) Subject: clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~515^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 --- Reading git-diff-tree failed