Re: RFC: New event timers infrastructure

From: Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:13:56 +0200
Hi Alexander,

* Alexander Motin <mav_at_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?

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
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Received on Mon Jun 07 2010 - 06:13:57 UTC

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