From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
johnstul@us.ibm.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
oleg@tv-sign.ru, tim.bird@am.sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ktimers subsystem 2.6.14-rc2-kt5
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:59:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4341E206.3090204@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051001112233.GA18462@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
>>The other thing is that this assumes, that all time sources are
>>programmable per cpu, otherwise it will be more complicated for a time
>>source to run the timers for every cpu, I don't know how safe that
>>assumption is. Changing the array of structures into an array of
>>pointers to the structures would allow to switch between percpu bases
>>and a single base.
>
>
> yeah, and that's an assumption that simplifies things on SMP
> significantly. PIT on SMP systems for HRT is so gross that it's not
> funny. If anyone wants to revive that notion, please do a separate patch
> and make the case convincing enough ...
>
Lets not talk about PIT, but, a lot of SMP platforms do NOT have per cpu timers. For those, it
would seem having per cpu lists to handle the timer is not really reasonable.
--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 20:43 [PATCH] ktimers subsystem 2.6.14-rc2-kt5 tglx
2005-09-28 23:59 ` Frank Sorenson
2005-09-29 0:50 ` Frank Sorenson
2005-09-29 0:56 ` john stultz
2005-09-29 1:05 ` Frank Sorenson
2005-09-29 1:10 ` john stultz
2005-09-29 6:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-30 15:58 ` Frank Sorenson
2005-09-29 19:57 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-01 1:03 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-01 11:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-04 1:59 ` George Anzinger [this message]
2005-10-04 5:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-10 12:42 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-10 14:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-01 12:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-10-10 17:22 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-11 7:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-10-12 22:36 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-12 23:46 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-16 16:34 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-16 19:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-10-16 23:03 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 7:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 8:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-17 9:29 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-17 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 16:25 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 16:49 ` Tim Bird
2005-10-17 17:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-17 18:49 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 19:19 ` Tim Bird
2005-10-17 19:48 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 20:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 20:31 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-18 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-18 23:52 ` Tim Bird
2005-10-19 0:03 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-19 1:58 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-19 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-19 10:49 ` kernel/timer.c design (was: Re: ktimers subsystem) Ingo Molnar
2005-10-19 17:48 ` kernel/timer.c design Tim Bird
2005-10-19 18:00 ` Tim Bird
2005-10-19 19:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-10-19 22:12 ` kernel/timer.c design (was: Re: ktimers subsystem) Roman Zippel
2005-10-19 11:40 ` [PATCH] ktimers subsystem 2.6.14-rc2-kt5 Ingo Molnar
2005-10-19 11:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-19 22:24 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-10-18 0:07 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-18 1:03 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-19 1:26 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-19 2:52 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-21 16:22 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-23 18:17 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-27 20:23 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-28 4:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-28 16:06 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 16:33 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 16:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 16:54 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 17:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-17 9:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-04 1:55 ` George Anzinger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-17 18:38 linux
2005-10-17 19:04 ` Roman Zippel
2005-10-17 22:41 ` linux
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