Re: [PATCH 00/12] hrtimer patches

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > Here is new version of the hrtimer patches sorted by priority. I 
> > dropped the remaining time patch, the const patch doesn't produce a 
> > larger kernel with gcc3 and I also added the acks so far. I consider 
> > the first four patches the most important and the remaining patches 
> > simple enough, that I think they're still 2.6.16 material.
> 
> i only consider the first two patches to be 2.6.16 material. The other 
> patches avoid a ->get_time() call per timer interrupt - that's noise at 
> most ...

It's two get_time() calls and I don't consider it noise, they are wasting 
time with unnecessary hardware accesses.

bye, Roman
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