From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756108AbZHNA32 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:29:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753592AbZHNA31 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:29:27 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:56601 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753484AbZHNA31 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:29:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] clocksource / timekeeping rework V3 From: john stultz To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20090813154034.613706651@de.ibm.com>> References: <20090813154034.613706651@de.ibm.com>> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:28:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1250209701.7149.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:40 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Greetings, > version 3 of the clocksource / timekeeping cleanup patches. As far as > I'm concerned this is the final version, modulo bugs and review results. > All the things I want to have in there are done. > > The latest additions are: > 1) Change read_persistent_clock to return a struct timespec instead of > an unsigned long with the number of seconds. > 2) Introduce read_boot_clock to initialize wall_to_monotonic. > > The patch set is based on todays upstream tree plus the patches from > the tip tree, if anyone wants to try them you need to pull from the > master branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip So I got the patch queue up and running and it's functioning correctly on the box I tested it with (although its not a super interesting box: TSC is unstable and it only has ACPI PM). Although I've not been able to test changing clocksources, I assume you gave that a whirl? I'll test that as soon as I can get access to a TSC friendly box. Once the "cycles_last = 0" fix is in to make sure TSC boxes work, I think this set should be ok to go in. thanks -john