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

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-31T09:24:44Z

* Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> 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).

hm, neat - did you take a look at the x86_64 clockevents code that is in
-rt and that has been there for a year or so and has been tested quite
extensively?

Ingo