Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:36:18 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 |
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> The same is true of a lot of the APIC timer code. Sure, that patch has the > actual conversion in it, and you don't have the cross-architecture issues, > but more than 50% of the patch seems to be just cleanup that is > independent of the actual switch-over, no?
I don't think it's that much cleanup. One of my goals for x86-64 was always to have it support modern x86 only; this means in particularly most of the old bug workaround removed. With the APIC timer merging a lot of that crap gets back in.
I would prefer to keep APIC code separate.
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