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timekeeping: Shorten seq_count region

Shorten the seqcount write hold region to the actual update of the
timekeeper and the related data (e.g vsyscall).

On a contemporary x86 system this reduces the maximum latencies on
Preempt-RT from 8us to 4us on the non-timekeeping cores.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Thomas Gleixner 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 2 3
      kernel/time/timekeeping.c

+ 2 - 3
kernel/time/timekeeping.c

@@ -1341,7 +1341,6 @@ static void update_wall_time(void)
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
-	write_seqcount_begin(&timekeeper_seq);
 
 	/* Make sure we're fully resumed: */
 	if (unlikely(timekeeping_suspended))
@@ -1393,6 +1392,7 @@ static void update_wall_time(void)
 	 */
 	accumulate_nsecs_to_secs(tk);
 
+	write_seqcount_begin(&timekeeper_seq);
 	/* Update clock->cycle_last with the new value */
 	clock->cycle_last = tk->cycle_last;
 	/*
@@ -1407,9 +1407,8 @@ static void update_wall_time(void)
 	 */
 	memcpy(real_tk, tk, sizeof(*tk));
 	timekeeping_update(real_tk, false, false);
-
-out:
 	write_seqcount_end(&timekeeper_seq);
+out:
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
 }