HPET vs other timers

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <46620B92.8020608 at root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Nate Lawson wrote:
>>>> Anyone able to speculate why though?  HPET only reads 32 bits from a
>>>> memory mapped region.  No locking or other requirements.  ACPI_timer
>>>> does multiple IO ops, which according to bde@ are much slower than
>>>> memory reads.  
>> 
>> HPET needs to do metastability mitigation and is not "just a read
>> from a memory mapped region".
>
>If it does, then it's not implemented yet:

It's implemented in hardware, that's why the read is so slow.

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