Re: [GIT PULL] timer changes for v3.10

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed May 01 2013 - 06:54:12 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull the latest timers-core-for-linus git tree from:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-core-for-linus
>
> Hmm.. The "Use generic idle loop" patches from the SMP/hotplug pull
> conflicted with the "Use tick broadcast expired check" patches in this
> one for both x86 and ARM.
>
> Both sets of patches were done by Thomas, and I *really* want you guys
> to take a look at my conflict resolution. I effectively moved the new
> "don't go into deep idle if boradcast timer is pending" check from x86
> and arm into the generic idle loop. So my merge resolution is
> semantically quite different from either branch, but the alternative
> seemed to be to remove the new check entirely.
>
> I pushed my merge out, please take a look.

It looks good to me (in fact I missed that semantic conflict when I merged
these two myself :-/ ) - but it would be nice if Thomas double checked it
as well.

Thanks,

Ingo
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