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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2007-02-16 01:27:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-16 08:13:58 -0800 |
| commit | 3c8aa39d7c445ae2612b6b626f76f077e7a7ab0d (patch) | |
| tree | 8e07fc3dbddc0d5a8be3ecda491ec4410c90ed6b /Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt | |
| parent | c9cb2e3d7c9178ab75d0942f96abb3abe0369906 (diff) | |
[PATCH] hrtimers: cleanup locking
Improve kernel/hrtimers.c locking: use a per-CPU base with a lock to control
locking of all clocks belonging to a CPU. This simplifies code that needs to
lock all clocks at once. This makes life easier for high-res timers and
dyntick.
No functional changes.
[ optimization change from Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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