- Prevent unnecessary timer softirq invocations by extending the tracking
of the next expiring timer in the timer wheel beyond the existing NOHZ
functionality. The tracking overhead at enqueue time is within the
noise, but on sensitive workloads the avoidance of the soft interrupt
invocation is a measurable improvement.
- The obligatory new clocksource driver for Ingenic X100 OST
- The usual fixes, improvements, cleanups and extensions for newer chip
variants all over the driver space.
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Time, timers and related driver updates:
- Prevent unnecessary timer softirq invocations by extending the
tracking of the next expiring timer in the timer wheel beyond the
existing NOHZ functionality.
The tracking overhead at enqueue time is within the noise, but on
sensitive workloads the avoidance of the soft interrupt invocation
is a measurable improvement.
- The obligatory new clocksource driver for Ingenic X100 OST
- The usual fixes, improvements, cleanups and extensions for newer
chip variants all over the driver space"
* tag 'timers-core-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when necessary
clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Add support for the Ingenic X1000 OST.
dt-bindings: timer: Add Ingenic X1000 OST bindings.
clocksource/drivers: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
clocksource/drivers/nomadik-mtu: Handle 32kHz clock
clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Use "kHz" for kilohertz
clocksource/drivers/imx: Add support for i.MX TPM driver with ARM64
clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Add high resolution timer support for SMP/SMT.
timers: Lower base clock forwarding threshold
timers: Remove must_forward_clk
timers: Spare timer softirq until next expiry
timers: Expand clk forward logic beyond nohz
timers: Reuse next expiry cache after nohz exit
timers: Always keep track of next expiry
timers: Optimize _next_timer_interrupt() level iteration
timers: Add comments about calc_index() ceiling work
timers: Move trigger_dyntick_cpu() to enqueue_timer()
timers: Use only bucket expiry for base->next_expiry value
timers: Preserve higher bits of expiration on index calculation
clocksource/drivers/timer-atmel-tcb: Add sama5d2 support
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