and hide it inside of atrtc driver. Add new tunable hint.atrtc.0.clock
controlling it. Setting it to 0 disables using RTC clock as stat-/
profclock sources.
Teach i386 and amd64 SMP platforms to emulate stat-/profclocks using i8254
hardclock, when LAPIC and RTC clocks are disabled.
This allows to reduce global interrupt rate of idle system down to about
100 interrupts per core, permitting C3 and deeper C-states provide maximum
CPU power efficiency.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
not provide the full accuracy of a randomized statistical clock, it does
provide greater accuracy than the previous method, while not significantly
increasing overhead. It also provides profiling support at 1024 Hz.
You must re-compile config before making a new kernel, or you will end
up with unresolved symbols.
Reviewed uy: Bruce evans said it worked for him.
