Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261826AbVEPTfb (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 15:35:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261833AbVEPTdh (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 15:33:37 -0400 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:16829 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261818AbVEPT3f (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 15:29:35 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17032.62615.750699.18847@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:29:27 -0700 To: Christoph Lameter Cc: john stultz , lkml , Tim Schmielau , George Anzinger , albert@users.sourceforge.net, Ulrich Windl , Dominik Brodowski , David Mosberger , Andi Kleen , paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, keith maanthey , Chris McDermott , Max Asbock , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Darren Hart , "Darrick J. Wong" , Anton Blanchard , donf@us.ibm.com, mpm@selenic.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem In-Reply-To: References: <1116029796.26454.2.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116029872.26454.4.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116029971.26454.7.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116030058.26454.10.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116030139.26454.13.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116264858.26990.39.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116269136.26990.67.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 14 >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter said: Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC? Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code? --david - 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/