Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:28:37 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: hpet: Avoid the readback penalty |
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> > 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. > > Will run in on a couple of SBx00 machines I got here.
FWIW, the patch doesn't break my SBx00 mini-farm here. Let me know if you need more testing done, otherwise:
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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