Re: [PATCH 0/5][time][x86_64] GENERIC_TIME patchset for x86_64

john stultz
2006-12-20T19:48:05Z

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:26 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:20:39 EST, john stultz said:
> > I didn't hear any objections (or really, any comments) on my
> > last release, so as I mentioned then, I want to go ahead and push this
> > to Andrew for a bit of testing in -mm. Hopefully targeting for
> > inclusion in 2.6.21 or 2.6.22.
>
> Am running it on a Dell Latitude D820 (Core2 T7200 cpu). I had to un-do
> 4 conflicting patches in -rc1-mm1 and then it applied and ran clean, I still
> need to look at re-merging them:

Doh. Oh right, I should have checked against -mm for conflicts.

> hpet-avoid-warning-message-livelock.patch
> clockevents-i386-hpet-driver.patch
> get-rid-of-arch_have_xtime_lock.patch
> x86_64-mm-amd-tsc-sync.patch
>
> It *looks* like all the pieces are there except a few lines of Kconfig
> magic to wire up the dynticks/NO_HZ stuff - or did I miss something crucial?

Yea, I will rework the patches ontop of -mm.

thanks
-john