From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753215AbVHHBgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753216AbVHHBgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:36:14 -0400 Received: from mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.186]:49537 "EHLO mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753215AbVHHBgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:36:14 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:30:23 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com, Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, george@mvista.com, Andrew Morton References: <200508031559.24704.kernel@kolivas.org> <200508080951.26433.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508081130.23636.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:20 am, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Aug 7, 2005, at 19:51:25, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:58, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > >> Con, > >> I am afraid until SMP correctness is resolved, then this is not > >> in a position to go in (unless you want to enable it only for UP, > >> which > >> I think should not be our target). I am working on making this work > >> correctly on SMP systems. Hopefully I will post a patch soon. > > > > Great! I wasn't sure what time frame you meant when you last > > posted. I won't > > do anything more, leaving this patch as it is, and pass the baton > > to you. > > I'm curious what has happened to the PPC side of the patch. IIRC, > someone > was working on such a port, but it seems to have been lost along the way > at some point. Is there any additional information on that patch? Tony said he had it lying around somewhere and needed to find time to dust it off and get it up to speed. Cheers, Con