Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:13:56 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: New event timers infrastructure Message-ID: <20100607081356.GY56080@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <4C0C1AE4.8050807@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C0C1AE4.8050807@FreeBSD.org>
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--M6k8nCARLe14uObT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Alexander, * Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Most of x86 systems now has at least 4 types of event timers: i8254, > RTC, LAPIC and HPET. Respective code in kernel is very tangled, heavily > hardcoded and absolutely not scalable. I have reimplemented it, trying > to solve these issues. Just out of curiosity, how does this work relate to things like having a tickless kernel? --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --M6k8nCARLe14uObT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwMqkQACgkQ52SDGA2eCwXf+wCfZL6hoTiCdRknzG2JCQlDuasg MqsAmwQiGKF5hIKzba6mmA0LCgJnAeRw =3Wyp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M6k8nCARLe14uObT--
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