Re: Son of crunch time: the list v1.2.

[george anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> On Monday 21 October 2002 22:20, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 17:42, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> > George said he would change the code to meet Linus's issues (re the sub
> > jiffies stuff).  But there was not much debate either way, and I suspect
> > George may in fact be correct.
> 
> Anybody know if he made this change?

Uh, what I will offer is: 
1.) Posix clock & timers  NOT HIGH RES
2.) A three patch set to put in high-res-timers:
   a.) The core kernel timer.c stuff
   b.) The i386 high res stuff
   c.) A patch to increase the POSIX clocks & timers to high
res.
> 
> > George also offered an interface-only version of the patch that
> > implements the POSIX clocks and timers syscalls, without the high
> > resolution support, so it would be nice to at the very least merge the
> > missing POSIX functionality.
> >
> >       Robert Love
> 
> Any comments on which of these three patches Linus should personally have the
> opportunity to turn down after the 27th?
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers

None of them :)  I will post a new set against the latest
kernel.  Working....

-g

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml