Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751018AbWIUCkg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:40:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751019AbWIUCkg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:40:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:56803 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751016AbWIUCkf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:40:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:40:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: john stultz Cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans (NTP changes) Message-Id: <20060920194016.a3efc906.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1158805731.8648.54.camel@localhost> References: <20060920135438.d7dd362b.akpm@osdl.org> <1158805731.8648.54.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2009 Lines: 49 On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:28:51 -0700 john stultz wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:54 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A wander through the -mm patch queue, along with some commentary on my > > intentions. > > > > When replying to this email, please rewrite the Subject: to something > > appropriate. Please also attempt to cc the appropriate developer(s). > > > > ntp-move-all-the-ntp-related-code-to-ntpc.patch > > ntp-move-all-the-ntp-related-code-to-ntpc-fix.patch > > ntp-add-ntp_update_frequency.patch > > ntp-add-ntp_update_frequency-fix.patch > > ntp-add-time_adj-to-tick-length.patch > > ntp-add-time_freq-to-tick-length.patch > > ntp-prescale-time_offset.patch > > ntp-add-time_adjust-to-tick-length.patch > > ntp-remove-time_tolerance.patch > > ntp-convert-time_freq-to-nsec-value.patch > > ntp-convert-to-the-ntp4-reference-model.patch > > ntp-cleanup-defines-and-comments.patch > > kernel-time-ntpc-possible-cleanups.patch > > kill-wall_jiffies.patch > > > > Will merge. > > No objections here, but I wanted to put forth some caution as I've seen > some odd NTP behavior with the full NTP patchset on my laptop (either it > does not converge or it just converges *much* more slowly then without). > Unfortunately I've not been able to collect solid enough data to analyze > the issue (really, each run should go for atleast a full day and always > run on the same network). > > However, in trying to narrow it down, the > ntp-add-time_adj-to-tick-length patch is where the behavior seems to > change the most. Again, no solid data, so I could be seeing ghosts, but > I wanted to mention it. > > I'll try to put aside some time to run a few longer tests and see if I > can get some clear results. > OK, thanks. Won't merge. - 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/