Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751252AbVLPBHF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:07:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751248AbVLPBHF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:07:05 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:3227 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252AbVLPBHD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:07:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:07:00 -0700 From: john stultz To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: lkml , Ingo Molnar , George Anzinger , Roman Zippel , Ulrich Windl , Thomas Gleixner , johnstul@us.ibm.com, john stultz Message-Id: <20051216010700.19280.66934.sendpatchset@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Subject: [PATCH 0/11] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B14-mm) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2093 Lines: 45 Andrew, All, So after a number of releases and empty threats of sending in this code to Andrew, there has still been mostly silence regarding any objections to these patches. Thus I figure its time to stir the pot and really submit these patches for inclusion to -mm (and maybe, just maybe, catch Andrew before he leaves for vacation :) This patchset 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 i386. I have started on converting more arches, but for now I'm only submmiting code for i386. The following patchset applies against the current 2.6.15-rc5-git + the hrtimer patch-set already in -mm and applies against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 with only minor collisions in Makefiles. The complete patchset (sent yesterdray including code for x86-64) can be found here: http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/ 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, Serge Belyshev, Dominik Brodowski, Thomas Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey, Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Jonathan Woithe, Darrick Wong, Roman Zippel and any others whom I've accidentally left off this list. Andrew, please consider for inclusion into your tree. thanks -john - 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/