Re: Linus rollup

David Mosberger
2003-01-29T06:53:38Z

The patch looks good to me. I applied it on top of 2.5.59+ia64 and it
checked out fine on the Ski simulator and a dual-Itanium2 zx6000
workstation.

Thanks,

--david

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:07:29 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> said:

Andrew> Gents,

Andrew> I've sifted out all the things which I intend to send to the
Andrew> boss soon. It would be good if you could perform some quick
Andrew> non-ia32 testing please.

Andrew> Possible breakage would be in the new frlock-for-xtime_lock
Andrew> code and the get_order() cleanup.

Andrew> The frlock code is showing nice speedups, but I think the
Andrew> main reason we want this is to fix the problem wherein an
Andrew> application spinning on gettimeofday() can make time stop.

Andrew> It's all at

Andrew> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-lt1/

Andrew> Thanks.