From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932317AbZHJQ6j (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:58:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932287AbZHJQ6i (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:58:38 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-24.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.19]:32807 "HELO outbound-mail-24.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932282AbZHJQ6h (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:58:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=IL4w+DRbJmGVQnnZG/BrySSvFyXyGoGaA272f17D3+p5Fmz0e3yc1LAjqY84ErwMZVhgFOdFOaLEBGZlCKXK/qC1PFUExIxCyc7326fcsfITmaTcPZU2+RaP227hvx8X; Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:58:36 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Suresh Siddha , tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Venkatesh Pallipadi , David Woodhouse , Jay Fenlason Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86: arch specific support for remapping HPET MSIs Message-ID: <20090810095836.1f86433b@jbarnes-g45> In-Reply-To: <20090808151254.GC28892@elte.hu> References: <20090804190729.477649000@intel.com> <20090804190729.630510000@intel.com> <20090808151254.GC28892@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.17.5; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.28.251 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:12:54 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Suresh Siddha wrote: > > > x86 arch support for remapping HPET MSI's by associating the HPET > > timer block with the interrupt-remapping HW unit and setting up > > appropriate irq_chip > > interesting. This means we'd materially utilize the irq-remapper not > just on relatively obscure, virtualization related setups, but also > in the native x86 bootup mode, on all (hpet+remap capable) Linux > systems? > > I like it - but i'll defer to Thomas to queue it up. I guess this set should go through either the iommu or -tip tree. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center