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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
	"linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
	Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK for SGI_SN systems
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:04:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122190452.GA20770@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57C9024A16AD2D4C97DC78E552063EA35CD8C4C3@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:21:05AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > Greg, if everyone is OK with this patch, this should also be applied
> > > to all stable trees starting with 2.6.26.
> 
> > What is the status of this going into Linus's tree?
> 
> I'm about to ask Linus to pull a modified version that does
> a "select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK" for all IA64 systems ...
> SGI sched_clock() is a lot less "stable" than most, but all
> ia64 systems can hit this as the ar.itc cycle counter is only
> s/w synchronized between cpus.

Thanks, I see it now and will queue it up for the next -stable releases.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06 16:27 [PATCH] configure HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK for SGI_SN systems Dimitri Sivanich
2009-01-06 17:12 ` Greg KH
2009-01-06 20:15 ` Luck, Tony
2009-01-06 20:19   ` Robin Holt
2009-01-06 20:34     ` Luck, Tony
2009-01-06 20:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-06 22:50         ` Robin Holt
2009-01-06 23:16           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-07  3:00             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-07  3:16               ` Jack Steiner
2009-01-07  7:28               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-07  7:40                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-07  9:43                 ` Robin Holt
2009-01-07  9:53                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-07 13:32                     ` Dimitri Sivanich
2009-01-07 15:16                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-15 18:48 ` Greg KH
2009-01-15 19:21   ` Luck, Tony
2009-01-22 19:04     ` Greg KH [this message]

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