On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:09:30 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote > * Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The local APIC timer stops to work in deeper C-States. This is handled > > by the ACPI code and a broadcast mechanism in the clockevents / tick > > managment code. > > > > Some systems do not expose the deeper C-States to the kernel, but > > switch into deeper C-States behind the kernels back. This delays the > > local apic timer interrupts for ever and makes the systems unusable. > > > > Add a command line option to disable the local apic timer and a dmi > > quirk for known broken systems.
Confirming that my machine on 2.6-git with this patch works just like on 2.6.20. Great work. -- Greetings - Grzegorz Chwesewicz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
