Re: [PATCH] HPET RTC emulation: add watchdog timer

[lkml]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:43:50PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > To prevent the emulated RTC timer from stopping when interrupts
> > are disabled for too long, implement the watchdog timer to
> > restart it when needed.
>
> The interrupt handler should just read the time (it likely
> has to do that anyways)

Not in the current implementation.

> and check for that directly.

I want to avoid the read altogether because the round trip to the
south bridge is rather slow (1.5 microseconds with VIA chipsets).


Clemens

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