Re: [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculationin timer_pm.c

[Peter Williams]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 14:18 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > In my experience, turning off DMA for IDE disks is a pretty good way to 
> > generate lost ticks :-)
>
>
> For this to "work" you have to unset "unmask IRQ" with hdparm, right?

I'm not familiar with that method.  When I've experienced this it's been 
due to me accidentally not configuring IDE DMA during configuration.

Peter
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