[PATCH 9/9] timer: Lower base clock forwarding threshold

Frederic Weisbecker
2020-07-07T01:33:23Z

There is nothing that prevents us from forwarding the base clock if
it's one jiffy off. This reason for this arbitrary limit is historical
and doesn't seem to 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 60126d5c79e1..814eaf42a8b5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ 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;

/*
--
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