Re: [PATCH] use 64bit timer for hpet

[Linux]

OK, Thank you for your patience. the last question:
> I forgot the details, but when I tried moving HPET to 64bit it did not
> work on one of my machines due to an erratum and other people reported
> similar issues on different CPUs/chipsets.
> 
> TBH, I'm not interested at all to chase down these buggy implementations
> and have yet another pile of quirks.

Can you tell me the erranum or issue link at that time? This is very important
 to us.

Thank you very much.


> 2021年7月12日 下午3:25，Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 写道：
> 
> Liao,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 12 2021 at 12:52, Linux wrote:
>>> Sorry, keeping the softirq from running for 3 minutes is simply out of
>>> spec. If the sysadmin decides to do so, then he can keep the pieces.
>> 
>> It is because the kernel thread is busy that the clocksource_watchdog 
>> thread is not scheduled, not softirq.
> 
> Which thread?
> 
> The clocksource watchdog runs from a timer_list timer callback in
> softirq context. Even if the softirq is switched to the softirq thread
> then still my argument of starving that for 3 minutes still stands.
> 
> This is _not_ a kernel problem. Overcommitment is a admin problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>        tglx