Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 02:08 schrieb William Weston: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Karsten Wiese wrote: > > > i've only tested on 2005ish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it doesn't need any of the > > quirks > > IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH, sis_bug, level-edge cleanup. > > IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH caused no negative influence neither. > > i've an io_apic_one.c here, that doesn't have any of the quirks and is > > stripped down > > to handle just one ioapic. It runs just fine on PREEMPT_RT. > > Could be used as a "Do i crash/suffer without the quirks?" test for 1 > > ioapic equipped machines. > > Should i post it? > > Please do. I'll give it a spin on several machines and let you know how > it goes ;-} > This is it. Apply it on top of -51-30 and 'make oldconfig'. You'll be asked about the new CONFIG_ONE_IOAPIC. Answering yes, io_apic_one.c will be used, which is ((io_apic.c minus quirks) minus multi_io_apic_capability) . It'll propably crash some machines, as the quirks are there for some reason... With CONFIG_ONE_IOAPIC unset, you'll get the same kernel as with my previously sent patch. have fun :-)
Karsten
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