From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753171AbVHHBUy (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:20:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753191AbVHHBUx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:20:53 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.89]:63477 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753171AbVHHBUx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:20:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200508080951.26433.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200508031559.24704.kernel@kolivas.org> <200508071512.22668.kernel@kolivas.org> <20050807165833.GA13918@in.ibm.com> <200508080951.26433.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com, Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, george@mvista.com, Andrew Morton Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5 Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:20:46 -0400 To: Con Kolivas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug 7, 2005, at 19:51:25, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:58, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: >> Con, >> I am afraid until SMP correctness is resolved, then this is not >> in a position to go in (unless you want to enable it only for UP, >> which >> I think should not be our target). I am working on making this work >> correctly on SMP systems. Hopefully I will post a patch soon. > > Great! I wasn't sure what time frame you meant when you last > posted. I won't > do anything more, leaving this patch as it is, and pass the baton > to you. I'm curious what has happened to the PPC side of the patch. IIRC, someone was working on such a port, but it seems to have been lost along the way at some point. Is there any additional information on that patch? Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn