tree 3793d20caa706178973d53c4aa75599480ed9051
parent 3bb475a3446facd0425d3f2fe7e85bf03c5c6c05
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1432680626 +0000
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1434719907 +0200

timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"

The FIFO guarantee is only there if two timers are queued into the
same bucket at the same jiffie on the same cpu:

 - The slack value depends on the delta between expiry and enqueue
   time, so the resulting expiry time can be different for timers
   which are queued in different jiffies.

 - Timers which are queued into the secondary array end up after a
   later queued timer which was queued into the primary array due to
   cascading.

 - Timers can end up on different cpus due to the NOHZ target moving
   around. Obviously there is no guarantee of expiry ordering between
   cpus.

So anything which relies on FIFO behaviour of the timer wheel is
broken already.

This is a preparatory patch for converting the timer wheel to hlist
which reduces the memory foot print of the wheel by 50%.

It's a seperate patch so any (unlikely to happen) regression caused by
this can be identified clearly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224511.757520403@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>