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DateFri, 23 Jun 2006 10:26:09 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] Announce: High-res timers, tickless/dyntick and dynamic HZ -V4
* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com> wrote:

> > Disabling NO_HZ and high resolution timers due to timer broadcasting
> > 
> > Not sure exactly what this is indicating or what's triggered this, but 
> > I'm assuming the patch isn't doing much on this machine?
> 
> The system is configured for SMP, but this is an UP machine and the 
> APIC is disabled in the BIOS. Linux uses then the PIT and an IPI 
> mechanism to broadcast timer events. We need to do the event 
> reprogramming per CPU, so we switch off in that situation.

hm, we should update the message to be less cryptic. Something like:

  'Disabling NO_HZ and high resolution timers due to no APIC'

and in this particular case we should also finetune the condition a bit 
and make it conditional on the number of CPUs. I.e. if someone boots an 
SMP kernel on a UP box we should still allow the PIT. (there wont be any 
broadcasting done) [the only exception would be if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is 
specified - in that case we cannot be sure whether a new CPU will be 
plugged in or not]

	Ingo
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