How can I check if high resolution timer is available in my system?

Andrzej

Dnia 5-12-2006 o godz. 14:52 Audet Jean-Michel napisał(a):
> It is for KCS transaction speed.  
> 
> Today, with the latest kernel and new timers with better resolution, the 
> difference is not very big between an implementation in interrupt or in 
> polling.  
> 
> When no high resolution timer was available, the KCS speed was at least 
> 20 times slower than now.  A transaction that is now taking 5ms to 10ms 
> was taking 200ms before. 
> 
> Jean-Michel Audet
> 
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> David A. Ranch
> EnvoyÊ : Monday, December 04, 2006 9:37 PM
> À : ipmitool-devel
> Objet : Re: [Ipmitool-devel] KCS with interrupts
> 
> 
> Curious, what's the benefit of an interrupt-based IPMI setup?  Better 
> response for things like traps, SOL, etc. compared to polling?  As it 
> stands, the dmidecode for these Supermicro cards doesn't say anything 
> about interrupts:
> 
> ...
> Handle 0x0030
>         DMI type 38, 12 bytes.
>         IPMI Device Information
> 
> [that's it for IPMI]
> 
> --Davod
> 
> > Hi,
> > Was anyone able to enable interrupts on KCS interface (Open IPMI 
> driver)?
> >
> > When I send: 
> > modprobe ipmi_si type=kcs irqs=9
> >
> > after 'dmesg |grep ipmi' I get:
> > ipmi message handler version 33.11
> > ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca2, 
> slave addres
> > s 0x20
> >
> > and 'cat /proc/ipmi/0/si_stats' shows:
> > interrupts_enabled:    0 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrzej 
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