Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "x86/hpet: Reduce HPET counter read contention"

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 06:24:26 EST


On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 03/18/2019 04:44 AM, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/15/101
> >
> I think what Thomas was asking is to provide a REALISTIC use case where
> TSC is wrecked and HPET is somehow not used and we have to fall back to
> use PM timer. If such use case exists, I am sure Thomas will be happy to
> take it.

Exactly.

Thanks,

tglx