Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756085Ab0AOCJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:09:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752150Ab0AOCJG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:09:06 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38620 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932151Ab0AOCJF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:09:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4B4FCC33.2010100@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:19 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Venkatesh Pallipadi CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Len Brown , Mark Hounschell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alain Knaff , Linus Torvalds , "Li, Shaohua" Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] x86: Do not use hpet MSI as clockevent broadcast device References: <20100115013957.027452000@intel.com> <20100115014209.992004000@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20100115014209.992004000@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/