svn commit: r212453 - in head/sys: conf powerpc/aim powerpc/booke powerpc/include powerpc/powerpc

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 11 09:40:10 UTC 2010


Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Alexander Motin wrote:
> 
>> Log:
>>  Update PowerPC event timer code to use new event timers infrastructure.
> 
> What are the advantages of using the new event timers infrastructure?
> Here it seems to only take longer and cost more (200 more lines of code).

Same as of other architectures. Now mostly unification. With forthcoming
one-shot timers patch it will also reduce interrupts in idle, plus
reduce aliasing between hardclock and statclock.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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