Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:04:30 -0800
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 23:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> changing the current 'timer' entry (which is line 2 of /proc/interrupts) 
> to be 'listed as lapic-timer' and to 'replace it with the count from 
> LOC' is faking a count in a line where nothing like that should be.

This point is getting irrelevant ..

> the kernel simply displays reality: IRQ#0 isnt increasing because it's 
> not used, and LOC (local apic timers) is increasing.

What about the statistics for the other interrupts in the system ? It
clearly doesn't list all interrupts in the system .

Daniel

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