Re: Tickless/dyntick kernel, highres timer and general time crapectomy

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:29:42AM +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:

> Well it increments every other clock. So it's not impossible to have a
> an other higher rated counter.

In practice that's very rare.  Otoh there are reasons why the cp0 counter
might be unusable - clockscaling, no interrupt, CPU powered off.

> >But even if so, the basic solution is the same - just ignore the interrupt
> >whenever it happens to be triggered.  Or if it isn't shared with an
> >active performance counter interrupt, you could even disable_irq() it.
> 
> OK, but the current code doesn't seem to support very well multiple
> clock event devices. For example the global_cd array is not updated if
> a new clock event device is registered. Even ll_timer_interrupt()
> handler should be renamed something like ll_hpt_interrupt() for
> example.

global_cd is meant to only hold the pointers to all processors' count/compare
clockevent devices, nothing else.  So if another clockevent device should
have a higher rating on a particular CPU the content of global_cd[] just
doesn't matter.

  Ralf