From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ck list <ck@vds.kolivas.org>,
tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:06:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050803090646.GF5406@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050803085910.A29066@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
* Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> [050803 00:59]:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:25:26PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > As promised, here is an updated patch for the newly released 2.6.13-rc5.
> > Boots and runs fine on P4HT (SMP+SMT kernel) built with gcc 4.0.1.
>
> Please note that ARM already has dyn-tick merged in mainline. If
> we're going to be adding dyn-tick for x86, please do it in a way
> that we don't create another goddamned awful mess like we did for
> the ARM IRQ stuff.
I agree, and will be working on that :)
> I notice that this version does some things in a different way to
> the ARM version - for instance, it doesn't pass the "number of
> jiffies to skip" to the arch reprogram function.
I've been meaning to update the x86 stuff with the changes we did for
ARM as soon as I have some time.
Tony
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-03 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-02 12:25 [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks Con Kolivas
2005-08-02 12:58 ` Prakash Punnoor
2005-08-02 13:00 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-02 13:28 ` [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks-2 Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-05 0:02 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 0:05 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 0:23 ` [PATCH] dyn-tick3 tweaks Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 0:53 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-05 1:39 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 3:20 ` [PATCH] dyn-tick3 tweaks respin Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 3:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-03 21:12 ` [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks-2 Pavel Machek
2005-08-04 21:20 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-03 7:59 ` [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks Russell King
2005-08-03 9:06 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
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