Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:13:49 -0700 | From | john stultz <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B13) |
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All, Just a quick rebase ontop of Thomas' patches!
The following patchset applies against 2.6.15-rc5 + the hrtimer patch- set and provides a generic timekeeping subsystem that is independent of the timer interrupt. This allows for robust and correct behavior in cases of late or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, reduces duplication in arch specific code, and allows or assists future changes such as high-res timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption. Additionally, it provides finer nanosecond resolution values to the clock_gettime functions.
The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert the i386 and x86-64 archs. I have started on converting more arches, but for now I'm focusing on i386 and x86-64.
New in this release: o Wrapped documentation lines @80c o Rebased ontop of Thomas' hrtimer patchset http://www.tglx.de/projects/ktimers/patches-2.6.15-rc5-hrtimer.tar.bz2 o Dropped back to using timer_lists since periodic_hook can be called late
Still on the TODO list: o Resolve Jonathan Woithe's problem report
I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas, criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work:
George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Dominik Brodowski, Thomas Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey, Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Darrick Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom I've accidentally left off this list.
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