Re: [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu May 19 2011 - 05:34:12 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The series provides a few improvements to the core code of
> clocksources and clockevents.
>
> 1) Better layout and cacheline alignment of the hotpath data in both
> data structures
>
> 2) Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep limit in clocksources
>
> 3) Provide a generic configuration and registration interface for
> clockevents which does all the common math tasks so we can remove
> copied code all over the place
>
> 4) Provide a function to reconfigure an active clock event
> device. Needed by devices which are affected by frequency scaling.
>
> The last two patches are x86 specific and make use of the new
> config_register() functions.

Nice! Other than the comments i made for specific patches it's looking good to
me:

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Ingo
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