Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > 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 again.  Sorry.


Segher

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