[PATCH] mmtimer driver update: add SHub interrupt support
- mmtimer: add support for the use of hardware timers on SGI SHubs (sn subarch) via the posix timer interface. - Allows the scheduling of up to 3 hardware interrupts per node to deliver signals to processes running on those nodes. - Periodic timers in user space capable of supporting intervals down to 10us (<10us supported but will usually result in excessive overruns). - Scheduling accuracy of 40ns. (However, typically it takes at least a few usecs for an interrupt to be forwarded to a signal in user space.) - Add missing SHub information to include/asm-ia64/sn/shub_mmr.h - Reserve timer interrupt used in include/asm-ia64/sn/intr.h Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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