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Message-ID: <20070401185402.GZ10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 11:54:02 -0700 From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks * Thomas Gleixner (tglx@...utronix.de) wrote: > 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. Yes, that's part of why I did some of the cleanups that way, so that we could merge the two together later. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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