Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/10] -mm: clocksource: add some new API calls | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:01:50 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:54 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > plain text document attachment (clocksource_user_api.patch) > originally used plist but removed it in this patch, and used a sorted list > which is just as fast with a lot less memory overhead. > > Introduces some new API calls, > > - clocksource_get_clock() > Allows a clock lookup by name. > - clocksource_rating_change() > Used by a clocksource to signal a rating change. Replaces > reselect_clocksource()
Adds ns2cyc interface. Just to keep things in logical chunks, maybe would that chunk be better added with the patch that uses it?
> I also moved the the clock source list to a plist, which removes some lookup > overhead in the average case.
Probably need to update the header, as you don't use a plist now. :)
> Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Otherwise this patch looks like a good cleanup to me.
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
thanks -john
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