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Commit 4cd4c1b4 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers



Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we:

 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads,
 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process,
 3) have no impact when not used.

In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts:

 - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
           from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID)

 - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're
           explicity used, the user can pay the overhead.

The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the
timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only
programs that make use of the facility pay the price.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 32bd671d
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