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From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
	Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>,
	John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:49:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100918074939.GA3275@brouette> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009151500060.2416@localhost6.localdomain6>

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [2010-09-15 15:11]:
> > x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity

> After my brain recovered from yesterdays exposure with the x86 timer
> horror, I came up with a different solution for this problem, which
> avoids the readback of the compare register completely. It works
> nicely on my affected ATI system, but needs some exposure to the other
> machines.

Comments for this different solution seemed fine, but it seems only the
first one was commited into mainline and then stable. Is this intended?


Thanks,

Damien

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-18  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-54ff7e595d763d894104d421b103a89f7becf47c@git.kernel.org>
2010-09-14 23:36 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-09-15 13:11 ` [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-15 13:43   ` Anders Larsen
2010-09-15 13:54   ` John Drescher
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTikHfDUh3LdmyA5eMNACFPfi6pqGLFJiyzVm79X_@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-16  4:45       ` Fwd: " John Drescher
2010-09-15 14:40   ` Borislav Petkov
2010-09-15 14:42     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-16 12:28     ` Borislav Petkov
2010-09-16 20:04   ` Nix
2010-09-18  7:49   ` Damien Wyart [this message]
2010-09-18  9:41     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-18 13:43     ` Nix
2010-09-18 10:13   ` [tip:x86/timers] x86: Hpet: Avoid the comparator " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner

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