Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:22:11 +0200 |
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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.
tglx
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