Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:35 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I already bisected this on my old pIII, which has the same problem:
clockevents-i386-drivers.patch

yes - we know what the problem is (and will fix it): the stopping of the
PIT - nmi_watchdog=1 is hack to use the IO-APIC's PIT pin to also signal
NMIs.

Just to clarify, this problem does not occur if HIGH_RES_TIMERS is off,
correct?

It does, as we switch off PIT when lapic is available in any case.

tglx


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