From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935681AbXGLAGf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:06:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935494AbXGKXsQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:48:16 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:39826 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935254AbXGKXsO (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:48:14 -0400 Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright In-Reply-To: <20070711233618.GD25510@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <1184191488.12353.160.camel@chaos> <1184194219.12353.170.camel@chaos> <20070711233618.GD25510@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:48:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1184197692.12353.197.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi, On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 01:36 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The same is true of a lot of the APIC timer code. Sure, that patch has the > > actual conversion in it, and you don't have the cross-architecture issues, > > but more than 50% of the patch seems to be just cleanup that is > > independent of the actual switch-over, no? > > I don't think it's that much cleanup. One of my goals for x86-64 was always > to have it support modern x86 only; this means in particularly most of the > old bug workaround removed. With the APIC timer merging a lot of that crap > gets back in. > > I would prefer to keep APIC code separate. Care to look at the patch ? It _IS_ seperate. Only HPET and PIT got shared. tglx