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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2003-09-16 04:07:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@laptop.osdl.org>2003-09-16 04:07:17 -0700
commitb508cfda0f4273049b7dbd6160398cfda7c78cce (patch)
tree552cf7f0c79914247a78cdfd5ad2d8f9ba4dd07b /kernel
parent6a91801c4ef3faff5a7db5e7f6bebe2e91c90f4e (diff)
[PATCH] use seq_lock for monotonic time
Monotonic clock code uses reader/writer lock which is prone to same starvation problems as we saw with xtime. This patch changes it to seq_lock which is faster and won't starve writers in face of lots of readers.
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