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The broadcast tick recipient can call tick_receive_broadcast rather than re-running the full timer interrupt. It does not have to check for the next event time, because the sender already determined the timer has expired. It does not have to test irq_work_pending, because that's a direct decrementer interrupt and does not go through the clock events subsystem. And it does not have to read PURR because that was removed with the previous patch. This results in no code size change, but both the decrementer and broadcast path lengths are reduced. Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.