Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasingproblem)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> In kernel 2.6, update_times() is called directly in timer interrupt,
> so there is no point calculating ticks here.  This also get rid of
> difference of jiffies and jiffies_64 due to compiler's optimization
> (which was reported previously with subject "jiffies_64 vs. jiffies").

If update_wall_time() and calc_load() are always called with the constant 
one  then you may be able to optimize these two functions as well.
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