Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:13:19 +0900 (JST)
Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:02:43 +0200, "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Good start, now you only have the change the 30+ calls to do_timer in
> > the various architecture backends.
> 
> OK, then this is a patch contains the changes.
> Adding S390 maintainer Martin Schwidefsky to CC.
> 
> This patch is against current git tree, so does not contains a change
> to arch/avr32 which is in mm tree.  I can create a patch against mm
> tree if expected.
> 
> 
> [PATCH] cleanup do_timer and update_times
> 
> Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times().
> 
> This also make a barrier added by
> 5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless.
> 
> Also adjust x86_64 and s390 timer interrupt handler with this change.
> 

This is a rather terse description for a change of this nature..

Why was this patch created?  What problem is it solving?  etcetera.

> ...
>
> --- a/kernel/timer.c
> +++ b/kernel/timer.c
> @@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@ static inline void calc_load(unsigned lo
>  	static int count = LOAD_FREQ;
>  
>  	count -= ticks;
> -	if (count < 0) {
> +	while (count < 0) {
>  		count += LOAD_FREQ;
>  		active_tasks = count_active_tasks();
>  		CALC_LOAD(avenrun[0], EXP_1, active_tasks);

OK, we do need the loop here to get the arithmetic in CALC_LOAD to work
correctly.

But I don't think the expensive count_active_tasks() needs to be evaluated
each time around.

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