From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:03:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.3_ia64-cyclone_A2.patch Message-Id: <16435.57642.819103.775542@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1077136393.985.111.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1077136393.985.111.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:52:03 -0800, john stultz said: John> Unfortunately there is no replicated clock on this hardware, John> so all nodes access the first counter on the first node. Not John> great, but correct and slow is better then fast and wrong. OK, thanks for the info. I'll try to keep this in mind should there be timestamping questions again (as there was recently in the scheduler). >>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:49:44 -0800, john stultz said: John> Gah! Where is this trailing whitespace? I already deleted the whitespace (my editor is showing it in bright red, so it's kind a hard to ignore ;-). John> I went through this patch specifically eliminating any I could John> find. Perhaps my mail client is trying to irritate me. The whitespace wasn't systematic, so i doubt it was the mailer. Any chance the mail contained an old patch? John> The code, while similar, isn't quite shareable w/ John> ia32. However, I'd be up for moving it to a separate IBM John> directory if you'd prefer, although for just a single file it John> seems like overkill. I don't feel very strongly about it. If you expect there to be other IBM-platform specific files in the future, it would make sense to create an ibm subdirectory. It's really your call. --david