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From: mingo@elte.hu (Ingo Molnar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 11:34:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519093403.GD6251@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518205713.947614271@linutronix.de>


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> The series provides a few improvements to the core code of
> clocksources and clockevents.
> 
> 1) Better layout and cacheline alignment of the hotpath data in both
>    data structures
> 
> 2) Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep limit in clocksources
> 
> 3) Provide a generic configuration and registration interface for
>    clockevents which does all the common math tasks so we can remove
>    copied code all over the place
> 
> 4) Provide a function to reconfigure an active clock event
>    device. Needed by devices which are affected by frequency scaling.
> 
> The last two patches are x86 specific and make use of the new
> config_register() functions.

Nice! Other than the comments i made for specific patches it's looking good to 
me:

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 11:34:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519093403.GD6251@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518205713.947614271@linutronix.de>


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> The series provides a few improvements to the core code of
> clocksources and clockevents.
> 
> 1) Better layout and cacheline alignment of the hotpath data in both
>    data structures
> 
> 2) Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep limit in clocksources
> 
> 3) Provide a generic configuration and registration interface for
>    clockevents which does all the common math tasks so we can remove
>    copied code all over the place
> 
> 4) Provide a function to reconfigure an active clock event
>    device. Needed by devices which are affected by frequency scaling.
> 
> The last two patches are x86 specific and make use of the new
> config_register() functions.

Nice! Other than the comments i made for specific patches it's looking good to 
me:

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 21:33 [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 2/7] clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  0:57   ` John Stultz
2011-05-19  0:57     ` John Stultz
2011-05-19  8:43     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  8:43       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-20  1:10     ` john stultz
2011-05-20  1:10       ` john stultz
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 1/7] clocksource: Restructure clocksource struct members Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 4/7] clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  9:08   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19  9:08     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19 10:00     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19 10:00       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19 18:10       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19 18:10         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 3/7] clockevents: Restructure clock_event_device members Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 5/7] clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  7:26   ` Linus Walleij
2011-05-19  7:26     ` Linus Walleij
2011-05-19  9:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19  9:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19  9:33     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  9:33       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  9:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19  9:37         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 6/7] x86: Convert PIT to clockevents_config_and_register() Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33 ` [patch 7/7] x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-18 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-19  9:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19  9:33     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-19  9:34 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-19  9:34   ` [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements Ingo Molnar

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