[PATCH] time_interpolator: add __read_mostly

The pointer to the current time interpolator and the current list of time
interpolators are typically only changed during bootup.  Adding
__read_mostly takes them away from possibly hot cachelines.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index bf7c4193b936ee1723281db43f46daba7de1165b..2410c18dbeb1403eafac5449b48676cd6580a387 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1354,8 +1354,8 @@ void __init init_timers(void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION
 
-struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator;
-static struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator_list;
+struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator __read_mostly;
+static struct time_interpolator *time_interpolator_list __read_mostly;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(time_interpolator_lock);
 
 static inline u64 time_interpolator_get_cycles(unsigned int src)