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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 23:44:13 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Dave Hansen wrote:
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> ...
> and some which help this too: (akpm's smptimers and some smart
> updating logic)
>     5822 mod_timer                                 24.2583

Ingo's smptimers.  akpm's "don't mod the timer if it won't change
anything" tweak.

I'd be interested in the effect of the latter.  It's very 2.4-able.

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