linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/18] move do_timer() from kernel/timer.c into kernel/time/timekeeping.c

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101242344090.31804@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:44:38 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Torben Hohn <torbenh@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, hch@...radead.org,
	yong.zhang0@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] move do_timer() from kernel/timer.c into
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 23:10 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The call to calc_global_load() is there for hysterical raisins and we
> > really should get rid of it sooner than later. I'm quite sure that it
> > could be run from a timer callback as well. Peter ?
> 
> calc_global_load() wants to be called on just one cpu, do we have a
> better place for that?

Well, we can call it from a timer from a single CPU.

Thanks,

	tglx
 
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