Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264377AbUFKWeb (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:34:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264382AbUFKWeb (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:34:31 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:41975 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264377AbUFKWe3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:34:29 -0400 Message-ID: <40CA3342.9020105@mvista.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:33:38 -0700 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: ganzinger@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: ganzinger@mvista.com, Geoff Levand , high-res-timers-discourse@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] high-res-timers patches for 2.6.6 References: <40C7BE29.9010600@am.sony.com> <1086861862.2733.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <40C8F68F.4030601@mvista.com> <20040611062256.GB13100@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040611062256.GB13100@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 40 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:02:23PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 03:49, Geoff Levand wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Available at >>>>http://tree.celinuxforum.org/pubwiki/moin.cgi/CELinux_5fPatchArchive >>>> >>>>For those interested, the set of three patches provide POSIX high-res >>>>timer support for linux-2.6.6. The core and i386 patches are updates of >>>>George Anzinger's hrtimers-2.6.5-1.0.patch available on SourceForge >>>>. The ppc32 port is >>>>not available on SourceForge yet. >>> >>> >>>My first impression is that it has WAAAAAAAAAAAY too many ifdefs. I >>>would strongly suggest to not make this a config option and just >>>mandatory, it's a core feature that has no point in being optional. If >>>you accept that, the code also becomes a *LOT* cleaner. >>> Can I be so bold as to ask about the changed to the timer list code? Assuming we scrapped all the ifdefs, that is. I have been thinking of a major rewrite which would leave this code alone, but would introduce an additional list and, of course, overhead for high-res timers. This will take some time and be sub optimal, so I wonder if it is needed. -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/