[patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Aug 4 12:28:57 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:10 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> >     Why bother doing this?! This will only warrant you imprecise decrementer 
> > interrupts while it should be interrupting at the precise period currently (if 
> > you load PIT once)...
> 
>     I.e. the error will only accumulate. NAK.

No, it won't since the timebase is always used as the reference.

Ben.





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