Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks

Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-02T21:31:37Z

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 11:54 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Thomas Gleixner (tglx@linutronix.de) wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 01:31 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > This series converts x86_64 timers to clockevents drivers
> > > and then enables dynticks. There's some minor cleanups along
> > > the way. The lapic broadcast mechanism is untested, I'm sure it
> > > still needs work, there's still some cruft in lapic_setup_timer.
> > >
> > > This is just for comments at this point, now that it's working
> > > on my test box in both NO_HZ=n and NO_HZ=n configurations (typically
> > > using hpet).
> >
> > Have you checked, if we could share the code between i386 and x86_64 at
> > least for PIT and HPET. I'm not sure about the local APIC, but I think
> > it might be doable as well.
>
> Yes, that's part of why I did some of the cleanups that way, so that we
> could merge the two together later.

I'd prefer to get this done now. If we plug it in as is, the "merge
later" probably will never happen.

tglx