On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
Bruce Evans wrote:
bde 2006-12-03 03:49:28 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/i386/isa clock.c sys/amd64/isa clock.c Log:
Optimized RTC accesses by avoiding null writes to the index register
and by only delaying when an RTC register is written to. The delay
...
Optimizing RTC interrupt handling is more interesting than it used to
be because RTC interrupts are currently needed to fix the more efficient
apic timer interrupts on some systems. apic_timer_hz is normally 2000
so the RTC interrupt rate needs to be 2048 to keep the apic timer
firing on such systems. ...
Why do we have both RTC and LAPIC timer interrupts at once?
Also, why does having the RTC interrupt rate being the same as the LAPIC
timers'
prevent the latter from firing?
We don't in -current, but using another source of interrupts is the only
known way to make lapic timer interrupts work when cpu_idle() stops
apci timer interrupts. Having the RTC (or some other) interrupt rate
larger than lapic timer rate makes the latter fire too (I think it fires
aperiodically when the other interrupt wakes it up iff it was asleep).
Bruce
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