Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-18 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello, I wrote: >>With these functions implemented we cooperate better with the generic >>timekeeping code. This obsoletes the need for the timer sysdev as a bonus. > Aha, I'm seeing it's not merged to mainline yet! Contrarywise, it's been merged first -- looks like this all happened b

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-17 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Tony Breeds wrote: > With these functions implemented we cooperate better with the generic > timekeeping code. This obsoletes the need for the timer sysdev as a bonus. Aha, I'm seeing it's not merged to mainline yet! And this can't be merged to -rt patch either, beucase -rt alsread

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-17 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> Eh... poor you. Tony got clockevent driver reengineered for no apparent >>reason. And he's introduced the jiffy drift by deleting the main loop from >>timer_interrupt(). Yet this borken version was preferred to what was known >>working since about 2.6

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Eh... poor you. Tony got clockevent driver reengineered for no apparent > reason. And he's introduced the jiffy drift by deleting the main loop from > timer_interrupt(). Yet this borken version was preferred to what was known > working since about 2.6.18 and included into 2.6.21-rt patchs

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Mackerras
Sergei Shtylyov writes: >Eh... poor you. Tony got clockevent driver reengineered for no apparent > reason. And he's introduced the jiffy drift by deleting the main loop from > timer_interrupt(). The main loop in timer_interrupt() became unnecessary, because update_wall_time contains an equ

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 22:07 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Proper approach is to rip off what is altready in -rt there and > replace > > it with Tony patch set. > > Tony's patchset is broken at places compared to what is in -rt. So > that > would be proper *double standard* approach. :-/

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-15 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>>I'm about to release a new -rt patch based on -rc8. This patch series >>>blew up totally in trying to get it applied. I'm leaving it out, so after >>>I release the next series, could you update these patches. >>No wonder here: the -rt patch already has much of

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-10-15 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>No wonder here: the -rt patch already has much of this code since around >>>2.6.21. They have been submitted by me, mostly... and this patchset is >>>against the Linus' tree. >>That would explain it ;-) >>I was searching the linux-rt-users mailing list for

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-09-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:39 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Tony, > > > I'm about to release a new -rt patch based on -rc8. This patch series > > blew up totally in trying to get it applied. I'm leaving it out, so after > > I release the next series, could yo

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:44 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > No wonder here: the -rt patch already has much of this code since around > > 2.6.21. They have been submitted by me, mostly... and this patchset is > > against the Linus' tree. > > That would explain it ;-) > > I was searching the

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-09-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Tony, > > > I'm about to release a new -rt patch based on -rc8. This patch series > > blew up totally in trying to get it applied. I'm leaving it out, so after > > I release the next series, could you update the

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-09-26 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Steven Rostedt wrote: > Tony, > I'm about to release a new -rt patch based on -rc8. This patch series > blew up totally in trying to get it applied. I'm leaving it out, so after > I release the next series, could you update these patches. No wonder here: the -rt patch already has much

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

2007-09-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
Tony, I'm about to release a new -rt patch based on -rc8. This patch series blew up totally in trying to get it applied. I'm leaving it out, so after I release the next series, could you update these patches. Thanks, -- Steve ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing