Commit 36cd28a4 authored Jul 17, 2020 by Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Thomas Gleixner Jul 17, 2020

timers: Lower base clock forwarding threshold



There is nothing that prevents from forwarding the base clock if it's one
jiffy off. The reason for this arbitrary limit of two jiffies is historical
and does not longer exist.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200717140551.29076-13-frederic@kernel.org

parent 0975fb56

kernel/time/timer.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ static inline void forward_timer_base(struct timer_base *base)
		* Also while executing timers, base->clk is 1 offset ahead
		* of jiffies to avoid endless requeuing to current jffies.
		*/
		if ((long)(jnow - base->clk) < 2)
		if ((long)(jnow - base->clk) < 1)
		return;

		/*

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