From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933897AbXDAS5x (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:57:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933898AbXDAS5x (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:57:53 -0400 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:39524 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933897AbXDAS5w (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:57:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 11:54:02 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Chris Wright , Ingo Molnar , john stultz , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks Message-ID: <20070401185402.GZ10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070331083149.997762000@sous-sol.org> <1175419332.28263.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1175419332.28263.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * 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. thanks, -chris