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Message-ID: <4B4FCC33.2010100@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:19 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] x86: Do not use hpet MSI as clockevent broadcast
device
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
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