From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262138AbVHCIBq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 04:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262140AbVHCIBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 04:01:45 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:14856 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262138AbVHCH7U (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 03:59:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:59:10 +0100 From: Russell King To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux kernel mailing list , ck list , Tony Lindgren , tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks Message-ID: <20050803085910.A29066@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , ck list , Tony Lindgren , tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com References: <200508022225.31429.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200508022225.31429.kernel@kolivas.org>; from kernel@kolivas.org on Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:25:26PM +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:25:26PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > As promised, here is an updated patch for the newly released 2.6.13-rc5. > Boots and runs fine on P4HT (SMP+SMT kernel) built with gcc 4.0.1. Please note that ARM already has dyn-tick merged in mainline. If we're going to be adding dyn-tick for x86, please do it in a way that we don't create another goddamned awful mess like we did for the ARM IRQ stuff. I notice that this version does some things in a different way to the ARM version - for instance, it doesn't pass the "number of jiffies to skip" to the arch reprogram function. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core