From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262918AbTE0I6b (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 04:58:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262930AbTE0I6a (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 04:58:30 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:50322 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262918AbTE0I62 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 04:58:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 02:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030527.021058.91786451.davem@redhat.com> To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: userspace irq balancer From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <1054026451.5301.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> References: <20030527011620.GB7135@suse.de> <20030526.181734.68129361.davem@redhat.com> <1054026451.5301.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arjan van de Ven Date: 27 May 2003 11:07:32 +0200 I have a 2.4 patch to use the acpitimer for things like this. That (when present) provides accurate high frequency time info. I don't expect many problems on the 2.5.x side (which is where I plan on doing this) since x86 appears to have a driver-like architecture to handle the various types of timers.