On Nov 30, 2007 2:17 PM, Eric Saxe <eric.saxe at sun.com> wrote: > > By the way, if you're planning to support C3 and below, how > > are you going to deal with the problem that both TSC and > > local APIC timers stop ticking when the processor is in C3? > > Solaris is so heavily dependent on TSC... > > > We'll need to "heal" them upon resumption, using the HPET or similar as > a reference.
Sounds good. Is Solaris using local APIC timer? If so, then what for? - Andrei
