Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [ck] [PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:39:22 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:17 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:15:38AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > It may be a good idea to rebase this patch off the new generic time- > > keeping > > subsystem that John Stultz is working on. > > I _am_ using the new subsystem interface (->mark_offset) to catch up with lost > ticks. Only I don't think it is that good at catching up the lost ticks if we > skip ticks for few seconds in a stretch.
Hey Srivatsa,
The timer_opts interface is the existing interface, my work replaces it and separates timekeeping from the timer interrupt.
You can find a cumulative version of my patch here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/0982.html
thanks -john
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