SGI Altix IA64 mmtimer: eliminate long interval timer holdoffs
authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:34:20 +0000 (15:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:03:14 +0000 (18:03 -0700)
commitdcade5ed16cce572e375bf4e63dd2150c351bf49
tree4bd086e5976978e605277f26c9e6baab77d3df3c
parent656e17ea9d997db1bb37d90b7a447eb511af5a63
SGI Altix IA64 mmtimer: eliminate long interval timer holdoffs

This patch for SGI Altix/IA64 eliminates interval long timer holdoffs in
cases where we don't start an interval timer before the expiration time.
This sometimes happens when a number of interval timers on the same shub
with the same interval run simultaneously.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/mmtimer.c