On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Julian Stecklina < [email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone know why the LAPIC is given a lower priority than HPET in > this case? If you have an LAPIC, it should always be prefered to HPET, > unless something is seriously wrong with it... > On many processors the lapic timer does not work correctly in states lower than C1. There are many processors that will automatically enter a "C1E" mode when the processor is idle, and in that state I have seen the lapic timer run slower than the programmed frequency, causing time to move to slowly on idle FreeBSD systems. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
