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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:21:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050119052118.GA19591@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050119050701.GA19542@atomide.com>

* Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [050118 21:08]:
> * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [050118 20:22]:
> >
> > BTW. Is it possible, when entering the "idle" loop, to quickly know an
> > estimate of when the next tick shoud actually kick in ?
> 
> Yes, see next_timer_interrupt() for that.

Hmmm, or maybe you mean _quick_estimate_ instead of 
next_timer_interrupt()?

I don't think there's any faster way to estimate the skippable ticks
without going through the list like next_timer_interrupt already does.
Does anybody have any ideas for that?

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-19  0:05 [PATCH] dynamic tick patch Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19  0:22 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-19  1:04   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19  4:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19  5:07   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19  5:21     ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2005-01-19  5:44       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19  6:26         ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19  9:45           ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-19  5:28     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19  6:37       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19  7:08         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19  7:31           ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 14:11       ` Stephen Frost
2005-01-19 17:17         ` Tony Lindgren
     [not found]         ` <OFDC470564.D4624EB3-ON41256F8E.00512848-41256F8E.005428CC@de.ibm.com>
2005-01-19 17:37           ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19  9:43 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-19 17:13   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 17:48     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-19 18:19       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 19:12         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-19 19:17           ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 19:34             ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 22:42               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-19 22:59       ` George Anzinger
2005-01-19 23:17         ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-20  0:24           ` George Anzinger
2005-01-20  8:04             ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-20 23:10               ` George Anzinger
2005-01-21 17:35                 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-21 20:23                   ` George Anzinger
2005-01-19 23:26         ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-19 23:45           ` john stultz
2005-01-20  5:56             ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-20  0:39           ` George Anzinger
2005-01-20  3:15         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-19 11:36 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-19 17:11   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 17:30     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-19 17:41       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 22:06     ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-19 23:08       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 23:46         ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-19 23:53           ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 23:59         ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-20  0:07           ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-20  0:44             ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-20  0:54             ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-20  7:39               ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-19 22:20     ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-20  4:02 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-01-21 17:48   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-21 18:27     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-01-21 18:38       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-01-21 18:54       ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-21 21:23         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-01-21 21:29           ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-21 20:25       ` George Anzinger
2005-01-21 21:38         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-01-22  7:24           ` George Anzinger

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