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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903171401190.29264@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:07:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, ego@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
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Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 2/4] timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-03-16 16:40:45]:
>
> The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
> 1)sched_rt_period_timer
> 2)tick_sched_timer
> 3)stack_trace_timer_fn
How did you verify that these are the only timers which need to be
pinned ?
Can we be sure that there is no code which relies on the current
behaviour to keep functionality tied together ? Networking and block
layer comes to mind.
Thanks,
tglx
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