[RFC PATCH 10/10] timer: Lower base clock forwarding threshold

Frederic Weisbecker
2020-07-01T01:10:59Z

There is no apparent reason for not forwarding base->clk when it's 2
jiffies late, except perhaps for past optimizations. But since forwarding
has to be done at some point now anyway, this doesn't stand anymore.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
---
kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 439fee098e76..25a55c043297 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ 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;

/*
--
2.26.2