From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] platform hook for timer_interrupt()
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:49:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106261593423004@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106261055215953@msgid-missing>
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:33:37PM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > Why not use add_timer()?
>
> This is code that must be run on each CPU, so the generic timer
> interface doesn't help us. I'm not certain, but some of this code may
> actually only have to run on each node (not every CPU).
How about smp_call_function() in a regular timer then?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-03 17:19 [patch] platform hook for timer_interrupt() Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-03 17:33 ` Alex Williamson
2003-09-03 17:33 ` Martin Hicks
2003-09-03 18:49 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-09-03 22:10 ` Grant Grundler
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2003-09-03 16:42 Martin Hicks
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