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* [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B12)
@ 2005-12-02  3:25 john stultz
  2005-12-02  3:25 ` [PATCH 1/13] Time: Reduced NTP rework (part 1) john stultz
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From: john stultz @ 2005-12-02  3:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Darren Hart, Nishanth Aravamudan, Frank Sorenson,
	George Anzinger, Roman Zippel, Ulrich Windl, Thomas Gleixner,
	john stultz, john stultz

All,
	The following patchset applies against 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 and provides a
generic timekeeping subsystem that is independent of the timer
interrupt. This allows for robust and correct behavior in cases of late
or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, reduces duplication in arch
specific code, and allows or assists future changes such as high-res
timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption. Additionally, it provides
finer nanosecond resolution values to the clock_gettime functions.

The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource
abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert
the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, but
for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.

New in this release: 
o Merged Ingo's whitespace/style fixups (*Many* thanks for this help!)
o Addressed Ingo's TODO items.
o Merged cpufreq SMP fix
o Dropped tsc-interp clocksource (wasn't being used)
o Improved NUMAQ bits

Still on the TODO list:
o Submit to -mm

I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas,
criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: 

	George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Dominik Brodowski, Thomas
Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey,
Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Darrick
Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom I've accidentally forgotten.

thanks 
-john

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* [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B14)
@ 2005-12-15  2:00 john stultz
  2005-12-15  2:00 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread
From: john stultz @ 2005-12-15  2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Darren Hart, Nishanth Aravamudan, nikita,
	Frank Sorenson, George Anzinger, Roman Zippel, Ulrich Windl,
	Steven Rostedt, Thomas Gleixner, john stultz, john stultz

All,
	The following patchset applies against 2.6.15-rc5-git + the 
hrtimer patch-set and provides a generic timekeeping subsystem that 
is independent of the timer interrupt. This allows for robust and 
correct behavior in cases of late or lost ticks, avoids interpolation 
errors, reduces duplication in arch specific code, and allows or assists 
future changes such as high-res timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime 
preemption. Additionally, it provides finer nanosecond resolution values 
to the clock_gettime functions.

The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource 
abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert 
the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, 
but for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.

The current patchset can be found here:
	http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/

New in this release: 
x clock_was_set
x x86-64 vsyscall fix suggested by Serge Belyshev.
x dropped c3tsc for ACPI PM
x dropped ACPI PM rate verification (causing false positives)

Still on the TODO list:
o nothing?

I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas, 
criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: 

	George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Serge Belyshev,
Dominik Brodowski, Thomas Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, 
Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey, Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank
Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Jonathan Woithe, Darrick Wong, Roman Zippel 
and any others whom I've accidentally left off this list.

thanks 
-john

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* [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B13)
@ 2005-12-06  4:13 john stultz
  2005-12-06  4:14 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread
From: john stultz @ 2005-12-06  4:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: john stultz, Ingo Molnar, Darren Hart, Nishanth Aravamudan,
	nikita, Frank Sorenson, George Anzinger, Roman Zippel,
	Ulrich Windl, Thomas Gleixner, john stultz

All,
	Just a quick rebase ontop of Thomas' patches!

	The following patchset applies against 2.6.15-rc5 + the hrtimer patch-
set and provides a generic timekeeping subsystem that is independent of the 
timer interrupt. This allows for robust and correct behavior in cases 
of late or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, reduces duplication 
in arch specific code, and allows or assists future changes such as 
high-res timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption. Additionally, 
it provides finer nanosecond resolution values to the clock_gettime 
functions.

The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource 
abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert 
the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, 
but for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.

New in this release: 
o Wrapped documentation lines @80c
o Rebased ontop of Thomas' hrtimer patchset
	http://www.tglx.de/projects/ktimers/patches-2.6.15-rc5-hrtimer.tar.bz2
o Dropped back to using timer_lists since periodic_hook can be called late

Still on the TODO list:
o Resolve Jonathan Woithe's problem report

I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas, 
criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: 

	George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Dominik 
Brodowski, Thomas Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt 
Mackal, Keith Mannthey, Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank 
Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Darrick Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom 
I've accidentally left off this list.

thanks 
-john

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* [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B11)
@ 2005-11-22  1:35 john stultz
  2005-11-22  1:35 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread
From: john stultz @ 2005-11-22  1:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Darren Hart, Nishanth Aravamudan, Frank Sorenson,
	George Anzinger, Roman Zippel, Ulrich Windl, Thomas Gleixner,
	john stultz, john stultz

All,
	The following patchset applies against 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 and provides a
generic timekeeping subsystem that is independent of the timer
interrupt. This allows for robust and correct behavior in cases of late
or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, reduces duplication in arch
specific code, and allows or assists future changes such as high-res
timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption. Additionally, it provides
finer nanosecond resolution values to the clock_gettime functions.

The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource
abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert
the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, but
for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.

New in this release: 
o Proper sysfs entries (available_clocksources, current_clocksource)
o disable pit clocksource on large smp (it doesn't scale)
o dropped cyclone calibration
o added extra paraniod checks
o NUMAQ should not use TSC
o AMD SMP tsc fallback (similar to x86-64's logic)

Still on the TODO list:
o Fix Frank Sorenson's c3tsc overcompensation problem
o More testing 
o Submit to -mm (as soon as the c3tsc issue is resolved)

I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas,
criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: 

	George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Dominik Brodowski, Thomas
Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey,
Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Darrick
Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom I've accidentally forgotten.

I'll be out of town for the next couple of days on holiday, so forgive
me if I don't respond until after Friday. However, do please let me know 
if you have any comments or feedback and I'll address them as soon as I 
get back.

thanks 
-john

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* [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B10)
@ 2005-11-12  4:48 john stultz
  2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread
From: john stultz @ 2005-11-12  4:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Darren Hart, Nishanth Aravamudan, Frank Sorenson,
	George Anzinger, Roman Zippel, Ulrich Windl, Thomas Gleixner,
	john stultz

All,
	I had hoped to submit this to -mm today, but since Ingo pointed
out an issue in the __delay code, I'm going to wait a week so the new fix
can be better tested.

	The following patchset applies against 2.6.14-mm2 (with some offsets 
and fuzz) and provides a generic timekeeping subsystem that is independent
of the timer interrupt. This allows for robust and correct behavior in
cases of late or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, reduces
duplication in arch specific code, and allows or assists future changes
such as high-res timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption.
Additionally, it provides finer nanosecond resolution values to the
clock_gettime functions.

The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource
abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert
the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, but
for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.

Thomas Gleixner has been quite helpful in deeply reviewing and
suggesting changes to the code, so many thanks to him for his help!

New in this release: 
o Use ktimer for periodic_hook 
o minor performance tweaks
o i386 __delay fix 
o docs and howtos in Documentation/timekeeping.txt

Still on the TODO list: 
o Get a weeks worth of testing 
o Submit to -mm (planned for the next release)

I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas,
criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: 

George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Dominik Brodowski, Thomas
Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey,
Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Darrick
Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom I've accidentally forgotten.

Please let me know if you have any comments or feedback.

thanks 
-john

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2005-12-02  3:25 [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B12) john stultz
2005-12-02  3:25 ` [PATCH 1/13] Time: Reduced NTP rework (part 1) john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
2005-12-03  0:19   ` George Anzinger
2005-12-03  0:35     ` john stultz
2005-12-05  7:59     ` Ulrich Windl
2005-12-06 20:26       ` George Anzinger
2005-12-07  7:33         ` Ulrich Windl
2005-12-05 10:35     ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-06  7:10       ` Ulrich Windl
2005-12-06  7:27         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-06 10:35           ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-06 10:50             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-07  7:23             ` Ulrich Windl
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 3/13] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 4/13] Time: Generic Timekeeping Infrastructure john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 5/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 1: Move timer_pit.c to i8253.c john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 6/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 2: Move timer_tsc.c to tsc.c john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 7/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 3: Rework TSC Support john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 8/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 4: ACPI PM variable renaming john stultz
2005-12-02  3:26 ` [PATCH 9/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 5: Enable Generic Timekeeping john stultz
2005-12-02  3:27 ` [PATCH 10/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 6: Remove Old Code john stultz
2005-12-02  3:27 ` [PATCH 11/13] Time: i386/x86-64 Clocksource Drivers john stultz
2005-12-02  3:27 ` [PATCH 12/13] Time: x86-64 Conversion to Generic Timekeeping john stultz
2005-12-02  3:27 ` [PATCH 13/13] Time: Generic Timekeeping Paraniod Debug Patch john stultz
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2005-12-15  2:00 [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B14) john stultz
2005-12-15  2:00 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
2005-12-06  4:13 [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B13) john stultz
2005-12-06  4:14 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
2005-11-22  1:35 [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B11) john stultz
2005-11-22  1:35 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
2005-11-26 14:53   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-12  4:48 [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B10) john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz

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