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Peter Zijlstra committed 9edfbfed3f5
sched/core: Rework rq->clock update skips The original purpose of rq::skip_clock_update was to avoid 'costly' clock updates for back to back wakeup-preempt pairs. The big problem with it has always been that the rq variable is unaware of the context and causes indiscrimiate clock skips. Rework the entire thing and create a sense of context by only allowing schedule() to skip clock updates. (XXX can we measure the cost of the added store?) By ensuring only schedule can ever skip an update, we guarantee we're never more than 1 tick behind on the update. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150105103554.432381549@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>