hrtimer: Make offset update smarter

On every tick/hrtimer interrupt we update the offset variables of the
clock bases. That's silly because these offsets change very seldom.

Add a sequence counter to the time keeping code which keeps track of
the offset updates (clock_was_set()). Have a sequence cache in the
hrtimer cpu bases to evaluate whether the offsets must be updated or
not. This allows us later to avoid pointless cacheline pollution.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203501.132820245@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.h b/kernel/time/timekeeping.h
index 4d177fce37d5..704f595ce83f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.h
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.h
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 /*
  * Internal interfaces for kernel/time/
  */
-extern ktime_t ktime_get_update_offsets_now(ktime_t *offs_real,
-						ktime_t *offs_boot,
-						ktime_t *offs_tai);
+extern ktime_t ktime_get_update_offsets_now(unsigned int *cwsseq,
+					    ktime_t *offs_real,
+					    ktime_t *offs_boot,
+					    ktime_t *offs_tai);
 
 extern int timekeeping_valid_for_hres(void);
 extern u64 timekeeping_max_deferment(void);