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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty
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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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