From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422834AbXBAMSp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 07:18:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422836AbXBAMSp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 07:18:45 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:50075 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422835AbXBAMSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 07:18:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:17:31 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andi Kleen Cc: jbohac@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , arjan@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday Message-ID: <20070201121731.GB3900@elte.hu> References: <20070201095952.589234000@jet.suse.cz> <200702011220.59484.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702011220.59484.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -5.3 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-5.3 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen wrote: > The big strategic problem is how to marry your patchkit to John > Stultz's clocksources work which is also competing for merge. Any > thoughts on that? the only sane thing would be to do it ontop of -mm: the stuff in -mm, barring some catastrophy, is hopefully destined for v2.6.21. We could do my quick optional hack for those who want fast gettimeofday now ahead of that queue - but this approximation thing should be definitely ontop. Ingo