> 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
