On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:52:53PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > OK! Here is the full implementation of the idea against Linux > timekeeper, ntp, and PPS. It appears that ntp and PPS were relying on > the timekeeper seqlock too. And guess what, after booting my laptop with > this kernel there still no smoke coming out of it after a good 5 minutes > of testing. ;-) > > Comments are welcome.
I think that moving stuff into structures is a worthwhile change on its own, but I'll leave John and Thomas to decide on all that. The latch thing does make the update side slightly more expensive due to having to do that copy every time, but ideally that wouldn't happen all that often. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
