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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:19 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] x86: Do not use hpet MSI as clockevent broadcast
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On 01/14/2010 05:39 PM, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> Current kernel uses hpet MSI interrupts as both percpu clockevent device
> and also as clockevent broadcast device in place of IRQ0 timer.
> There seems to be issues with HPET MSI usage on some platforms. So,
> restrict it to be only used as a percpu clockevent device.

Any ideas of which platforms?  It would help avoiding "cargo cult
programming" in the future.

Other than that, I presume this is a .33 patch?

	-hpa

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