Re: mod_timer improvement

[Steve Modica <modica@sgi.com>]

D'OH! Sorry about the formatting.  I think this is better:


@@ -207,6 +207,14 @@
         int ret;
         unsigned long flags;

+        /*
+        * This is a common optimization triggered by the
+        * networking code - if the timer is re-modified
+        * to be the same thing then just return:
+        */
+        if (timer->expires == expires && timer_pending(timer))
+               return 1;
+
         spin_lock_irqsave(&timerlist_lock, flags);
         timer->expires = expires;
         ret = detach_timer(timer);



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