Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:54:59 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty | From | John Drescher <> |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity > > After my brain recovered from yesterdays exposure with the x86 timer > horror, I came up with a different solution for this problem, which > avoids the readback of the compare register completely. It works > nicely on my affected ATI system, but needs some exposure to the other > machines. > > Comments ? >
I can test this on my i7 machine in tonight (around 12 hours from now).
John
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