diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 23af20e81334..984a7fd48f25 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 5590a536c0bc403fc73908c66c1c88cbed735ecb
+refs/heads/master: 3704540b48295253bd9c87a5e7ff545f9d47a3b8
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/trunk/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 52db9e3c526e..b416995b9757 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
 	ktime_t now = ktime_get();
+	u64 offset;
 
 	/*
 	 * Emulate tick processing via per-CPU hrtimers:
@@ -554,8 +555,12 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
 	ts->sched_timer.function = tick_sched_timer;
 	ts->sched_timer.cb_mode = HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ;
 
-	/* Get the next period */
+	/* Get the next period (per cpu) */
 	ts->sched_timer.expires = tick_init_jiffy_update();
+	offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1;
+	do_div(offset, NR_CPUS);
+	offset *= smp_processor_id();
+	ts->sched_timer.expires = ktime_add_ns(ts->sched_timer.expires, offset);
 
 	for (;;) {
 		hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);