Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261767AbVBDRjT (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:39:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263342AbVBDRfM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:35:12 -0500 Received: from fsmlabs.com ([168.103.115.128]:22723 "EHLO fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265191AbVBDRb4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:31:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:31:17 -0700 (MST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Tony Lindgren cc: Pavel Machek , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Arjan van de Ven , Martin Schwidefsky , Andrea Arcangeli , George Anzinger , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1 In-Reply-To: <20050204171805.GF22444@atomide.com> Message-ID: References: <20050201110006.GA1338@elf.ucw.cz> <20050201204008.GD14274@atomide.com> <20050201212542.GA3691@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050201230357.GH14274@atomide.com> <20050202141105.GA1316@elf.ucw.cz> <20050203030359.GL13984@atomide.com> <20050203105647.GA1369@elf.ucw.cz> <20050203164331.GE14325@atomide.com> <20050204051929.GO14325@atomide.com> <20050204171805.GF22444@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 23 On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Yes, it's safer to keep the timer periodic, although it's > used for oneshot purposes for the skips. If the timer interrupt > got missed for some reason, the system would be able to recover when > it's in periodic mode. > > And with some timers, we can do the reprogramming faster, as we just > need to load the new value. > > I could not figure out how to disable the interrupts for PIT > when local APIC is used and the ticks to skip is longer than PIT > would allow. So I just changed the mode temporarily to disable it. > > Does anybody know if there's a way to stop PIT interrupts while > keeping it in the periodic mode? disable_irq(0) ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/