Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:25:51 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, takawata@freebsd.org, njl@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: HPET vs other timers Message-ID: <b1fa29170705211125oc6c8dcaq44ac08096510c49f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86zm3y9hg5.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <2792.1179764955@critter.freebsd.dk> <86zm3y9hg5.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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For the record, I ran with HPET timers the entire time fro...
There is no questioning the quality of the support for HPET. The only
issue is that its use comes at a higher cost than one might expect.
-Kip
On 5/21/07, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > > > I can't rememember who raised the quality of it recently, CVS will
> > > > know. I was sceptical, because I also have systems where HPET is
> > > > slow.
> > > I did, with your approval, almost a year ago.
> > Yes, I said "try it" or something of the sort.
>
> For the record, I ran with HPET timers the entire time from HPET support
> was first committed until I finally committed that patch - about ten
> months - so I did test it to the best of my ability.
>
> DES
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> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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