From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965949AbXDBVbh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:31:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965951AbXDBVbh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:31:37 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:34481 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965949AbXDBVbg (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:31:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Chris Wright Cc: Ingo Molnar , john stultz , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070401185402.GZ10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070331083149.997762000@sous-sol.org> <1175419332.28263.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070401185402.GZ10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:31:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1175549504.28263.184.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 11:54 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Thomas Gleixner (tglx@linutronix.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. I'd prefer to get this done now. If we plug it in as is, the "merge later" probably will never happen. tglx