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@ 2005-11-12  4:48 john stultz
  2005-11-12  4:48 ` [PATCH 1/13] Time: Reduced NTP rework (part 1) john stultz
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From: john stultz @ 2005-11-12  4:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Darren Hart, Nishanth Aravamudan, Frank Sorenson,
	George Anzinger, Roman Zippel, Ulrich Windl, Thomas Gleixner,
	john stultz

All,
	I had hoped to submit this to -mm today, but since Ingo pointed
out an issue in the __delay code, I'm going to wait a week so the new fix
can be better tested.

	The following patchset applies against 2.6.14-mm2 (with some offsets 
and fuzz) and provides a generic timekeeping subsystem that is independent
of the timer interrupt. This allows for robust and correct behavior in
cases of late or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, reduces
duplication in arch specific code, and allows or assists future changes
such as high-res timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption.
Additionally, it provides finer nanosecond resolution values to the
clock_gettime functions.

The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource
abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert
the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, but
for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.

Thomas Gleixner has been quite helpful in deeply reviewing and
suggesting changes to the code, so many thanks to him for his help!

New in this release: 
o Use ktimer for periodic_hook 
o minor performance tweaks
o i386 __delay fix 
o docs and howtos in Documentation/timekeeping.txt

Still on the TODO list: 
o Get a weeks worth of testing 
o Submit to -mm (planned for the next release)

I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas,
criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: 

George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Dominik Brodowski, Thomas
Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey,
Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Darrick
Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom I've accidentally forgotten.

Please let me know if you have any comments or feedback.

thanks 
-john

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2005-11-12  4:48 [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B10) john stultz
2005-11-12  4:48 ` [PATCH 1/13] Time: Reduced NTP rework (part 1) john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 3/13] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 4/13] Time: Generic Timekeeping Infrastructure john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 5/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 1: Move timer_pit.c to i8253.c john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 6/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 2: Move timer_tsc.c to tsc.c john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 7/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 3: Rework TSC Support john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 8/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 4: ACPI PM variable renaming john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 9/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 5: Enable Generic Timekeeping john stultz
2005-11-12  4:49 ` [PATCH 10/13] Time: i386 Conversion - part 6: Remove Old Code john stultz
2005-11-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 11/13] Time: x86-64 Conversion to Generic Timekeeping john stultz
2005-11-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 12/13] Time: i386/x86-64 Clocksource Drivers john stultz
2005-11-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 13/13] Time: Generic Timekeeping Paraniod Debug Patch john stultz
2005-11-13  1:24 ` [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B10) Andi Kleen
2005-11-13  2:34   ` john stultz
2005-11-13  7:32   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-13 10:53     ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-14 17:41       ` john stultz
2005-11-14 18:23       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-14 21:22 ` Frank Sorenson
2005-11-14 21:38   ` john stultz
2005-11-14 21:53     ` Frank Sorenson
2005-11-14 22:02       ` john stultz
2005-11-14 23:07         ` Frank Sorenson
2005-11-14 23:25           ` john stultz
2005-11-15  5:04             ` Frank Sorenson
2005-11-15 19:53               ` john stultz
2005-11-15 20:53                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-15 21:04                   ` john stultz

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