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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	zippel@linux-m68k.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160319234.5686.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160319033.3693.19.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 07:50 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > > > Since it's likely that this interface would get used during bootup I moved all
> > > > the clocksource registration into the postcore initcall.  This also eliminated
> > > > some clocksource shuffling during bootup.
> > > 
> > > We had the init call in postcore already. John moved it to module init
> > > to eliminate trouble with unsynced / unstable TSCs, IIRC.
> > > 
> > > John, can you please comment on this.
> > 
> > It also breaks pmtimer.
> 
> OGAWA reported this already. It breaks the case when there is a verified
> read needed, instead of the fast read. I'll fix it.

I'd like to know, why we need to move that and you did not explain _why_
it is likely that it is used during bootup.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-08 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200610070153.k971ren4020838@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-10-08  8:06 ` + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm tree Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 10:19   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 14:50     ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 14:53       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-10-08 15:45         ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 15:58           ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 16:18             ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 16:52               ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 17:17                 ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 19:03                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 20:39                     ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 20:52                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 21:15                         ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 21:20                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 21:31                             ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 21:38                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 22:13                                 ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 22:53                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 23:35                                     ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-09  6:56                                       ` Thomas Gleixner

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