Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-15 Thread Tony Breeds
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:07:26PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: Hi Matt, > What does "isn't quite right yet" mean? Broken, acts funny, or just > a messy patch? If you compile with CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, the kernel is broken. Yours Tony linux.conf.auhttp://linux.conf.au/ || http://lca2008.linu

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-13 Thread Domen Puncer
On 12/07/07 13:07 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > Domen, > > You wouldn't have tried these on the Efika yet, would you? Not yet, but they worked on a mpc5200b based board (lite5200b). Domen > > -- > Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations > > Domen Puncer

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-13 Thread Domen Puncer
On 12/07/07 18:11 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Domen Puncer wrote: > > >>Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, > >>some kind of hrtimer and the other related improvements in the > >>PowerPC tree? > > >I use attached patches for tickless. > >Order in wh

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 21:04 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > We already have some ~20 for Efika support on top of 2.6.22 including > minor bugfixes and stuff, and the Gentoo genpatches stuff. I really > want > to get a good start on CFS, hrtimers, dynticks and so on though and > see > if we can push it

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Matt Sealey wrote: > Michael Neuling wrote: > >> And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-dev for the benefit of a single > >> feature. What I am after is something like Ingo Molnar throws out.. > >> single patches done the old way, not git trees. It's so much easier to > >> han

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Matt Sealey
Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Matt Sealey wrote: > >> And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-dev for the benefit of a single > >BTW, the latest -rt has has been also released in the broken out form > (at last!) which has "PPC gtod and highres support" section in its > series file. H

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Matt Sealey
Michael Neuling wrote: >> Okay. >> >> What I didn't want to do is spend a day sifting some other development >> tree picking out what I think might be possibly sort of the right patches >> for it. >> >> I'd get it wrong because having not worked on it, I don't know what I am >> even looking for. >>

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Hello. Domen Puncer wrote: Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, some kind of hrtimer and the other related improvements in the PowerPC tree? I use attached patches for tickless. Order in which they're applied: PowerPC_GENERIC_CLOCKEV

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Matt Sealey wrote: > And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-dev for the benefit of a single BTW, the latest -rt has has been also released in the broken out form (at last!) which has "PPC gtod and highres support" section in its series file. > feature. What I am after is something

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Michael Neuling
> Okay. > > What I didn't want to do is spend a day sifting some other development > tree picking out what I think might be possibly sort of the right patches > for it. > > I'd get it wrong because having not worked on it, I don't know what I am > even looking for. > > And I don't want to run -r

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Domen Puncer wrote: Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, some kind of hrtimer and the other related improvements in the PowerPC tree? I use attached patches for tickless. Order in which they're applied: PowerPC_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS.patch That's my

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Matt Sealey
Domen, You wouldn't have tried these on the Efika yet, would you? -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations Domen Puncer wrote: > On 11/07/07 19:06 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: >> Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, >> some kind of hrti

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-12 Thread Matt Sealey
Hi Tony, What does "isn't quite right yet" mean? Broken, acts funny, or just a messy patch? -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations Tony Breeds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:15:16PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > >> And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-de

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-11 Thread Domen Puncer
On 11/07/07 19:06 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, > some kind of hrtimer and the other related improvements in the > PowerPC tree? I use attached patches for tickless. Order in which they're applied: PowerPC_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS.patch

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-11 Thread Tony Breeds
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:15:16PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-dev for the benefit of a single > feature. What I am after is something like Ingo Molnar throws out.. > single patches done the old way, not git trees. It's so much easier to > handle and integr

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-11 Thread Matt Sealey
Okay. What I didn't want to do is spend a day sifting some other development tree picking out what I think might be possibly sort of the right patches for it. I'd get it wrong because having not worked on it, I don't know what I am even looking for. And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-dev fo

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Neuling
> Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, > some kind of hrtimer and the other related improvements in the PowerPC > tree? Tony Breeds has been looking at this. I think he wanted to clean his patch set up before he posted it. Mikey

Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC

2007-07-11 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Matt Sealey wrote: > Does anyone have the definitive patchset to enable the tickless hz, > some kind of hrtimer and the other related improvements in the > PowerPC tree? Look into the -rt patch which has the all this (minus TOD vsyscalls). MBR, Sergei