On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:21:11PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 12 November 2005 10:22, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> > Is there any advantage to using 64-bit HPET?
>
> Yes - it can tolerate long delays between ticks, e.g. caused by noidletick /
> debuggers / target probes / smm etc. At least the first case will be fairly
> important soon.
A 32-bit 14 MHz HPET counter will overflow in approximately 5 minutes. I
don't think going 64-bit makes sense for noidletick, but for debuggers,
etc, it could make a good sense indeed.
> > It's read is even slower
>
> Why? The read should be on cache line granuality and there shouldn't
> be any difference in theory.
I'll try to measure this. Indeed, in theory there shouldn't be a
significant difference.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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