From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262164AbVHCJHE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:07:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262166AbVHCJHE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:07:04 -0400 Received: from ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.46]:4293 "EHLO ylpvm15.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262164AbVHCJHC (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:07:02 -0400 X-ORBL: [67.117.73.34] Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:06:47 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , ck list , tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks Message-ID: <20050803090646.GF5406@atomide.com> References: <200508022225.31429.kernel@kolivas.org> <20050803085910.A29066@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050803085910.A29066@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Russell King [050803 00:59]: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:25:26PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > As promised, here is an updated patch for the newly released 2.6.13-rc5. > > Boots and runs fine on P4HT (SMP+SMT kernel) built with gcc 4.0.1. > > Please note that ARM already has dyn-tick merged in mainline. If > we're going to be adding dyn-tick for x86, please do it in a way > that we don't create another goddamned awful mess like we did for > the ARM IRQ stuff. I agree, and will be working on that :) > I notice that this version does some things in a different way to > the ARM version - for instance, it doesn't pass the "number of > jiffies to skip" to the arch reprogram function. I've been meaning to update the x86 stuff with the changes we did for ARM as soon as I have some time. Tony