On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:42 -0800, George Anzinger wrote: > This patch changes the update of the cmos clock to be timer driven > rather than poll driven by the timer interrupt function. If the clock > is not being synced to an outside source the timer is removed and thus > system overhead is nill in that case. The update frequency is still ~11 > minutes and missing the update window still causes a retry in 60 > seconds.
No replies yet. Are there any objections to this patch? If not, it should be applied as it reduces the worst case latency of the -RT kernel from about 90 to 40 usecs on my hardware. The effect on mainline should be negligible. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
