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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O APIC: Timer through 8259A revamp
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:52:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hccubgni.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0805180237350.10067@cliff.in.clinika.pl> (Maciej W. Rozycki's message of "Sun, 18 May 2008 04:35:54 +0100 (BST)")

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:
> ---
>  It works for my system, but it definitely requires much, much more
> testing.  The patch depends on patch-2.6.26-rc1-20080505-timer_ack-1 sent
> earlier.

I tried to clean up this code in the past too, but one experience I got
was that even a lot of relatively modern systems (<5 years old) fall into the fallback
paths unfortunately and it's quite difficult to find out why.

Also Windows uses a different timer set up so this configuration is often
not well tested.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-19 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-18  3:35 [PATCH] I/O APIC: Timer through 8259A revamp Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-19 12:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-19 13:57   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-19 12:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-05-19 14:25   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-19 14:50     ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-19 22:08       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-19 22:34         ` Andi Kleen

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