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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: vatsa@in.ibm.com
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	ck@vds.kolivas.org, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	george@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [ck] [PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:39:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124123963.4722.9.camel@leatherman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050815154726.GB4731@in.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:17 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:15:38AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > It may be a good idea to rebase this patch off the new generic time- 
> > keeping
> > subsystem that John Stultz is working on.
> 
> I _am_ using the new subsystem interface (->mark_offset) to catch up with lost
> ticks. Only I don't think it is that good at catching up the lost ticks if we
> skip ticks for few seconds in a stretch. 

Hey Srivatsa, 

The timer_opts interface is the existing interface, my work replaces it
and separates timekeeping from the timer interrupt.

You can find a cumulative version of my patch here:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/0982.html

thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-15 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-12 20:19 [PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-13  1:35 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2005-08-13  6:51   ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-13 11:37     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-13 14:53       ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-13 16:46         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-14  0:18           ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-14  4:15             ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-15 15:47               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-15 16:39                 ` john stultz [this message]
2005-08-16  2:11                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-15 15:35             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-15 16:30               ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-16 13:19                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-16 13:23                   ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-17  7:53                     ` Tony Lindgren

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