From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:47:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706281147.04556.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070628024233.8e29a5bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:42:33 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The patch set has been tested in the -hrt and -rt trees for quite a while
> > and the initial problems have been sorted out. Thanks to the folks from the
> > PowerTop project for testing and feedback.
>
> hrm. Looks like none of your testers have HPET_ID_LEGSUP hardware.
AFAIK it's only on IBM Summit. You have such a box?
> btw, if you want to know why I go on and on about crappy commenting, try to
> work out from the kernel source code what HPET_ID_LEGSUP is, and why it
> gets special treatment. It is not possible. This is not maintainable
> code.
We have a reference somewhere to the HPET spec.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 13:32 [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3 Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 01/28] NOHZ: Fix nox x86 dyntick idle handling Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 02/28] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 03/28] clockevents: fix typo in acpi_pm.c Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 04/28] Timekeeping: Fixup shadow variable argument Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 05/28] timer.c cleanup recently introduced whitespace damage Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 06/28] Clockevents remove prototypes of removed functions Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 07/28] clockevents: Fix resume logic Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 08/28] clockevents: Fix device replacement Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 09/28] Tick management: spread timer interrupt Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-26 0:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 10/28] highres: Improve debug output Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-26 0:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 12:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 11/28] hrtimer: speedup hrtimer_enqueue Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 12/28] pcspkr: use the global PIT lock Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 13/28] NTP: Move the cmos update code into ntp.c Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 14/28] i386: PIT stop only, when in periodic or oneshot mode Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 15/28] i386: remove volatile in apic.c Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 16/28] i386: hpet assumes boot cpu is 0 Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 17/28] i386: move PIT function declarations and constants to correct header file Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 18/28] x86_64: untangle asm/hpet.h from asm/timex.h Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 19/28] x86_64: Use generic cmos update Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 20/28] x86-64: remove dead code and other janitor work in tsc.c Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 21/28] x86-64: Fix APIC typo Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 22/28] x86_64: Convert to cleckevents Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-26 0:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 23/28] ACPI: Remove the useless ifdef code Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 24/28] x86_64: hpet restore vread Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 25/28] x86_64: restore restore nohpet cmdline Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 26/28] x86-64 block irq balancing for timer Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 21:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-24 0:04 ` Andreas Kleen
2007-06-24 1:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 27/28] x86_64: prep idle loop for dynticks Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-23 13:32 ` [patch -mm 28/28] x86_64: enable high resolution timers and dynticks Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-28 9:42 ` [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3 Andrew Morton
2007-06-28 9:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-28 10:39 ` Andrew Morton
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