Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966881AbWKYRlY (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:41:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966885AbWKYRlY (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:41:24 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:32466 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966881AbWKYRlX (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:41:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] x86: unify/rewrite SMP TSC sync code From: Arjan van de Ven To: Wink Saville Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <4568764B.7080505@saville.com> References: <20061124170246.GA9956@elte.hu> <200611241813.13205.ak@suse.de> <20061124202514.GA7608@elte.hu> <4567B0CC.4030802@saville.com> <1164443423.3147.51.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4568764B.7080505@saville.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:41:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1164476473.3147.59.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 19 > Actually, we need to ask the CPU/System makers to provide a system wide > timer that is independent of the given CPU. I would expect it quite simple they exist. They're called pmtimer and hpet. pmtimer is port io. hpet is memory mapped io. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/