Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Add PowerPC decrementer clock event driver.
> Every effort has been made to support the different implementations of the
> decrementer: the classic one (with 970 series variation), 40x and Book E
> specific ones.
> I had to make CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS option selectabl
>>> This scales with the number of processors since there is one
>>> decrementer per core (is it per thread on SMT chips?
>>> I don't know).
>>
>> One per core.
>
> No, each thread has its own decrementer, but the timebase is shared.
Argh, of course you're right, I'm reading the wrong ISA
version
Segher Boessenkool writes:
> > This scales with the number of processors since there is one
> > decrementer per core (is it per thread on SMT chips?
> > I don't know).
>
> One per core.
No, each thread has its own decrementer, but the timebase is shared.
Paul.
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> This scales with the number of processors since there is one
> decrementer per core (is it per thread on SMT chips?
> I don't know).
One per core.
Segher
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:52:45PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
> >
> > On May 18, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:28 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think both the MPC52xx GPT0-7 and the SLT0-1 fulfil this fairly
> >>> easily.
>
