Re: [patch] clockevents: drivers for i386, fix #2

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 07:18:10 EST


On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there's one material difference we just found: in the !hres case we'll
> do the timer IRQ handling mostly from the lapic vector - while in
> mainline we do it from the irq0 vector. So, how does your
> /proc/interrupts look like? How frequently does LOC increase, and how
> frequently does IRQ 0 increase?
>
> (meanwhile we'll fix and restore things so that it matches mainline
> behavior.)

Andrew, does the patch below fix your problem ?

You should see the same weird behaviour when you run a plain -mm3 with
CONFIG_SMP=y on that box. This moves update_process_times() to the lapic
too.
tglx


Index: linux-2.6.18-mm3/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm3.orig/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c 2006-10-04 13:02:35.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm3/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c 2006-10-04 12:59:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ static void lapic_timer_setup(enum clock
static struct clock_event_device lapic_clockevent = {
.name = "lapic",
.capabilities = CLOCK_CAP_NEXTEVT | CLOCK_CAP_PROFILE
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
| CLOCK_CAP_UPDATE,
+#endif
.shift = 32,
.set_mode = lapic_timer_setup,
.set_next_event = lapic_next_event,




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