Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967463AbWK2QYr (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:24:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967464AbWK2QYr (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:24:47 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:26125 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967463AbWK2QYq (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:24:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:24:34 -0800 (PST) From: Daniel Walker X-X-Sender: dwalker@localhost.localdomain To: Ingo Molnar cc: Lee Revell , Fernando Lopez-Lezcano , "Linux-Kernel," Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns In-Reply-To: <20061129072100.GA1983@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <1164743931.15887.34.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <1164744757.1701.58.camel@mindpipe> <20061128201444.GB26934@elte.hu> <1164751282.7543.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061129072100.GA1983@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1296 Lines: 31 On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > please talk to John and Thomas about GTOD interfaces. Right now the > solution used by the latency tracer is working out pretty OK - but if > something better comes along i can use that too. It's not a burning > issue though, unless you know of some bug. (i'm not sure what you mean > by it becoming constrictive) It doesn't appear to handle clock switching, so for instance, if generic time switches from the tsc, to the acpi_pm would the latency tracer tolerate it ? Also a combination of HRT enabled, and a faulty acpi_pm would cause the tracer to use the PIT .. The PIT takes spinlocks during it's read so I'd imgaine the system would crash, or something else not so good. Also with HRT enabled, you would end up using the acpi_pm even if the TSC is stable which is slower .. That's what I mean when I say constrictive . I've been working with John and Thomas to make the clocksource more usable (and lots of cleanups), ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/dwalker/clocksource/clocksource-v8/ Daniel - 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/