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Date:      Mon, 11 May 2009 15:22:00 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD acpi <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fighting for the power.
Message-ID:  <4A081868.6010906@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A07BC4D.7080604@freebsd.org>
References:  <49FE1826.4060000@FreeBSD.org> <4A07BC4D.7080604@freebsd.org>

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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I started to try the "hint.apic.0.clock", but noticed
> in your commit r191720:
> Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Add hint.apic.0.clock tunable. Setting it 0 disables using
>> LAPIC timers as hard-/stat-/profclock sources falling back
>> to using i8254 and rtc timers.
>> ...
>> This technique is not working for SMP yet, as only one CPU
>> receives timer interrupts. But I think that problem could
>> be fixed by forwarding interrupts to other CPUs with IPI.
> 
> Is anyone looking at this yet?

I have implemented SMP support for i386 and amd64 in some of my later 
commits.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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