linux-kernel - Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <20071002073703.GA31108@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:37:03 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mpm@...enic.com, "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On 02 Oct 2007 08:18:17 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>
> > The clockevents patches are not included in this; but given the 
> > recent trouble i'm not 100% sure they are even ready yet.

i'm curious, which "recent trouble" do you refer to? (The NMI watchdog 
bug [which is off by default] was fixed quickly. The C1E bug was found 
and fixed quickly. Anything else i missed?)

> hm, well, I hope you and Thomas are on the same page regarding 
> precisely what the remaining issues are.

i'd like to see the 64-bit clockevents (& dynticks) patches merged. 
Demand from users and distros is high: the 64-bit CE patches are merged 
into the Fedora 8 and Ubuntu kernels already, it's been in -mm and in 
-rt too for a long time and powertop users demand it as well. It also 
makes it obviously easier to unify the 64-bit and 32-bit code. So 
there's multiple good reasons to do it.

	Ingo
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