linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2011 11:34:03 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LAK <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] clocksources/clockevents improvements


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> 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@...e.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo
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