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From: dwalker@mvista.com
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 00/10] -mm  generic clocksoure API
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:24:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060804032414.304636000@mvista.com> (raw)

This patch set is meant to modify the clocksource structure and API so that it
can be used by more than just the timekeeping code. My motivation is mainly
that I feel the current clocksource interface could be used for much more
than just timekeeping. So if we keep the clocksource interface (which I think
we should) then we should get everything out of it that we can.

This set modifies the API, then converts the time keeping code over to the new
API. I also added a generic sched_clock() which just re-uses the clocksource
interface to provide a high quality scheduling clock (assuming a good
clocksource). Several ARM board just output nanoseconds based on jiffies which
is still possible with the generic sched_clock().

I tested this on SMP and UP x86, and compile tested for ARM.

Daniel

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-04  3:24 dwalker [this message]
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 01/10] -mm clocksource: increase initcall priority dwalker
2006-08-04 18:39   ` john stultz
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 02/10] -mm clocksource: small cleanup dwalker
2006-08-04 18:40   ` john stultz
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 03/10] -mm clocksource: enable plist dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 04/10] -mm clocksource: add some new API calls dwalker
2006-08-04 19:06   ` john stultz
2006-08-04 19:28     ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-04 21:05       ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 05/10] -mm clocksource: convert generic timeofday dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 06/10] -mm clocksource: add block notifier dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 07/10] -mm clocksource: remove update_callback dwalker
2006-08-04 19:28   ` john stultz
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 08/10] -mm clocksource: cleanup on -mm dwalker
2006-08-04 19:53   ` john stultz
2006-08-04 21:11     ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-04 22:16       ` john stultz
2006-08-04 23:16         ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 09/10] -mm clocksource: initialize list value dwalker
2006-08-04  3:24 ` [PATCH 10/10] -mm clocksource: add generic sched_clock() dwalker

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