> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:38:22 -0700 Venki Pallipadi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Auto-detect the presence of HPET on ICH5 or newer platforms and enable
> HPET for broadcast timer. This gives a bigger upperlimit for tickless time
> tick and improves the power consumption in comparison to PIT as broadcast timer.
>
> This patch:
>
> Change the broadcast timer, if a timer with higher rating becomes available.
>
so... is this the mysterious patchset which will get NOHZ working
on my little Vaio?
I _think_ what's going on here is that your code will go and poke the
hardware to enable the hpet even f the BIOS decided to hide its presence.
Is that correct? If so, perhaps the changelog should mention this
explicitly.
> Applies over linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2 +
> tglx's patch-2.6.22-rc4-mm2-hrt4 patch
Oh. Well that tears that then.
Thomas, can I assume that you'll send all this stuff back at me?
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