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hrtimer: Get rid of softirq time
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:08:35 +0000 (21:08 +0000)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:06:49 +0000 (17:06 +0200)
commit21d6d52a1b7028e6a6840bd82e354aefa9a5e203
tree4eb0e548a84402f27655f0ae78d79eeff37cb26b
parenta6ffebce7f89f6f97cc22838a5d4383b15d6774f
hrtimer: Get rid of softirq time

The softirq time field in the clock bases is an optimization from the
early days of hrtimers. It provides a coarse "jiffies" like time
mostly for self rearming timers.

But that comes with a price:
    - Larger code size
    - Extra storage space
    - Duplicated functions with really small differences

The benefit of this is optimization is marginal for contemporary
systems.

Consolidate everything on the high resolution timer
implementation. This makes further optimizations possible.

Text size reduction:
       x8664 -95, i386 -356, ARM -148, ARM64 -40, power64 -16

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203501.039977424@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/linux/hrtimer.h
kernel/time/hrtimer.c
kernel/time/timekeeping.c
kernel/time/timekeeping.h