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Thus I figure its time to stir the pot and <br />really submit these patches for inclusion to -mm (and maybe, just maybe, <br />catch Andrew before he leaves for vacation :)<br /><br />This patchset provides a generic timekeeping subsystem that is <br />independent of the timer interrupt. This allows for robust and correct<br />behavior in cases of late or lost ticks, avoids interpolation errors, <br />reduces duplication in arch specific code, and allows or assists future<br />changes such as high-res timers, dynamic ticks, or realtime preemption.<br />Additionally, it provides finer nanosecond resolution values to the<br />clock_gettime functions.<br /><br />The patch set provides the minimal NTP changes, the clocksource <br />abstraction, the core timekeeping code as well as the code to convert <br />i386. I have started on converting more arches, but for now I'm only <br />submmiting code for i386.<br /><br />The following patchset applies against the current 2.6.15-rc5-git + the <br />hrtimer patch-set already in -mm and applies against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 with<br />only minor collisions in Makefiles.<br /><br />The complete patchset (sent yesterdray including code for x86-64) can <br />be found here:<br /> <a href="http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/">http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/</a><br /><br />I'd like to thank the following people who have contributed ideas, <br />criticism, testing and code that has helped shape this work: <br /> George Anzinger, Nish Aravamudan, Max Asbock, Serge Belyshev,<br />Dominik Brodowski, Thomas Gleixner, Darren Hart, Christoph Lameter, <br />Matt Mackal, Keith Mannthey, Ingo Molnar, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank<br />Sorenson, Ulrich Windl, Jonathan Woithe, Darrick Wong, Roman Zippel <br />and any others whom I've accidentally left off this list.<br /><br />Andrew, please consider for inclusion into your tree.<br /><br />thanks <br />-john<br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-16 02:10 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>