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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:23:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110579830.19661.10.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4230087E.3080307@mvista.com>

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:42 -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
> This patch changes the update of the cmos clock to be timer driven
> rather than poll driven by the timer interrupt function.  If the clock
> is not being synced to an outside source the timer is removed and thus
> system overhead is nill in that case.  The update frequency is still ~11
> minutes and missing the update window still causes a retry in 60
> seconds.

No replies yet.  Are there any objections to this patch?

If not, it should be applied as it reduces the worst case latency of the
-RT kernel from about 90 to 40 usecs on my hardware.

The effect on mainline should be negligible.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-03 17:10 [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt Lee Revell
2005-03-04  0:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04  1:19   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-04 10:28     ` George Anzinger
2005-03-04 20:43       ` Lee Revell
2005-03-04 20:58         ` George Anzinger
2005-03-08 20:27           ` Lee Revell
2005-03-08 23:23             ` George Anzinger
2005-03-10  8:42               ` George Anzinger
2005-03-11 22:23                 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-03-11 22:34                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-12  2:01                     ` George Anzinger
2005-03-19  9:33                     ` [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt-lock fix George Anzinger
2005-03-19 21:21                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-19 22:23                         ` George Anzinger

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