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| author | Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> | 2006-03-16 23:04:00 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-17 07:51:25 -0800 |
| commit | 67890d7084085e29c51afa2514036d42643fd3cf (patch) | |
| tree | 2562028768e7236ee70a5954aa45d8922fcbf350 /kernel | |
| parent | 90036ee5938d89638e80f4d0d0700d0f2dbd4a6a (diff) | |
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[PATCH] time_interpolator: add __read_mostly
The pointer to the current time interpolator and the current list of time
interpolators are typically only changed during bootup. Adding
__read_mostly takes them away from possibly hot cachelines.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/timer.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index bf7c4193b936..2410c18dbeb1 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -1354,8 +1354,8 @@ void __init init_timers(void) #ifdef CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION -struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator; -static struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator_list; +struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator __read_mostly; +static struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator_list __read_mostly; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(time_interpolator_lock); static inline u64 time_interpolator_get_cycles(unsigned int src) |