linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty

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Date:	Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:49:39 +0200
From:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
	Artur Skawina <art.08.09@...il.com>,
	John Drescher <drescherjm@...il.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.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
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