Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:52:44 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:39 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > > 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. > > that's fine, this is just RFC to see if there's obvious broken bits, etc. > also, i still need to do some split out of the pit. it and hpet are nearly > identical though, so i don't noticing any issues with this.
Ok.
> the part i know is broken is lapic broadcast, so i'd like to fix that > up too. trouble is, it's broken on vanilla too, so i'm not 100% sure > what i'm debugging yet.
You need to remove switch_APIC_timer_to_ipi and counterpart so that the clockevents broadcast gets control over broadcasting. This requires a change in drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c as well
commit e9e2cdb412412326c4827fc78ba27f410d837e6e has the basic changes.
tglx
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