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

Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-01T09:22:13Z

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.

tglx