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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] monotonic seqlock for cyclone timer
Date: 08 Oct 2003 13:20:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1065644448.1034.103.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031008115819.2404cd2a.shemminger@osdl.org>

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:58, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Replace read/write lock used for cyclone timer monotonic_lock with seqlock.
> Similar to locking used on xtime and monotonic_lock in timers/timer_tsc.c
> 
> It builds and runs, but I don't have hardware with cyclone support to test.
> Not a big deal (yet) since only hangcheck timer uses monotonic clock so far.

I use to run w/ almost the exact same patch on cyclone hardware. Looks
good to me.

thanks for sending this out
-john



      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-08 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-08 18:58 Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-08 20:20 ` john stultz [this message]

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