[patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Mon Aug 6 00:12:57 EST 2007


Hello.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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.

    I meant the error in the interrupt period itself (I know that this gets 
accounted for) but that was a thinko anyway...

> Ben.

WBR, Sergei



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