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    hrtimers: Reorder clock bases · 68fa61c0
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    
    
    The ordering of the clock bases is historical due to the
    CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC constants. Now the hrtimer bases
    have their own enumeration due to the gap between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
    CLOCK_BOOTTIME. So we can be more clever as most timers end up on the
    CLOCK_MONOTONIC base due to the virtue of POSIX declaring that
    relative CLOCK_REALTIME timers are not affected by time changes. In
    desktop environments this is slowly changing as applications switch to
    absolute timers, but I've observed empty CLOCK_REALTIME bases often
    enough. There is no performance penalty or overhead when
    CLOCK_REALTIME timers are active, but in case they are not we don't
    skip over a full cache line.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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