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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] x86: Do not use hpet MSI as clockevent broadcast device
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4FCC33.2010100@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100115014209.992004000@intel.com>

On 01/14/2010 05:39 PM, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> Current kernel uses hpet MSI interrupts as both percpu clockevent device
> and also as clockevent broadcast device in place of IRQ0 timer.
> There seems to be issues with HPET MSI usage on some platforms. So,
> restrict it to be only used as a percpu clockevent device.

Any ideas of which platforms?  It would help avoiding "cargo cult
programming" in the future.

Other than that, I presume this is a .33 patch?

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-15  1:39 [patch 0/4] Only use HPET MSI timers on systems with deep C-state support Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-01-15  1:39 ` [patch 1/4] acpi: acpi_cpu_soft_notify() not getting called on resume Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-01-15  1:39 ` [patch 2/4] x86: Do not use hpet MSI as clockevent broadcast device Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-01-15  2:00   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-01-15  2:07     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2010-01-15  1:40 ` [patch 3/4] clockevent: Add tick_check_fallback_timer to look for fallback timer Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-01-15  1:40 ` [patch 4/4] x86: Adjust HPET MSI timer rating to work with tick_check_fallback_timer Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-01-15 21:53 ` [patch 0/4] Only use HPET MSI timers on systems with deep C-state support Mark Hounschell

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