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[Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] Fix lapic timer stop issue in deep C state

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] Fix lapic timer stop issue in deep C state
From: "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:37:15 +0800
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Thanks for the restructuring, Yes, FSB delivery mode (MSI) support is in
our next plan.

HPET in ICH7/8/9 has only IOAPIC mode. ICH10 will add  FSB mode. 

Best Regards
Ke

Keir Fraser wrote:
> Applied, after a lot of restructuring.
> 
> Also, would it be cleaner to set up the HPET to do direct FSB writes
> to a local APIC, rather than hijacking PIT ch0? There are some corner
> cases where we leave PIT ch0 enabled after boot. Do most HPET
> implementations support direct FSB interrupt delivery?
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> On 20/5/08 16:22, "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Local APIC timer may stop at deep C state (C3/C4...) entry/exit. this
>> patch add the logic that use platform timer (HPET) to reenable local
>> APIC timer at C state entry/exit.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Gang <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Ke <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx>


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