1 files changed, 2 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 7cedef8f5f70..2c8564d54e4d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -711,30 +711,15 @@ void wakeup_decrementer(void)
 void __init smp_space_timers(unsigned int max_cpus)
 {
         int i;
-        unsigned long half = tb_ticks_per_jiffy / 2;
-        unsigned long offset = tb_ticks_per_jiffy / max_cpus;
         u64 previous_tb = per_cpu(last_jiffy, boot_cpuid);
 
         /* make sure tb > per_cpu(last_jiffy, cpu) for all cpus always */
         previous_tb -= tb_ticks_per_jiffy;
-        /*
-         * The stolen time calculation for POWER5 shared-processor LPAR
-         * systems works better if the two threads' timebase interrupts
-         * are staggered by half a jiffy with respect to each other.
-         */
+
         for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
                 if (i == boot_cpuid)
                         continue;
-                if (i == (boot_cpuid ^ 1))
-                        per_cpu(last_jiffy, i) =
-                                per_cpu(last_jiffy, boot_cpuid) - half;
-                else if (i & 1)
-                        per_cpu(last_jiffy, i) =
-                                per_cpu(last_jiffy, i ^ 1) + half;
-                else {
-                        previous_tb += offset;
-                        per_cpu(last_jiffy, i) = previous_tb;
-                }
+                per_cpu(last_jiffy, i) = previous_tb;
         }
 }
 #endif