From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751319AbVHMGwX (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:52:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751320AbVHMGwX (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:52:23 -0400 Received: from mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.166]:6284 "EHLO mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751319AbVHMGwW (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:52:22 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: ck@vds.kolivas.org Subject: Re: [ck] [PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:51:07 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, akpm@osdl.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, george@mvista.com References: <20050812201946.GA5327@in.ibm.com> <200508131135.46558.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200508131135.46558.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508131651.08809.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:35, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:19, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > Hi, > > Here's finally the SMP changes that I had promised. The patch > > breaks the earlier restriction that all CPUs have to be idle before > > cutting of timers and now allows each idle CPU to skip ticks independent > > of others. The patch is against 2.6.13-rc6 and applies on top of Con's > > patch maintained here: > > Great! Thanks. I'm sorry to say this doesn't appear to skip any ticks on my single P4 with SMP/SMT enabled. Con