Re: [Dumb question] 100k RTC interrupts/sec on SMP system: why?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 08:43:27 EST


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:35 +0300, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:
> Replying to Arjan van de Ven:
> > Also have you tried acpi=off or the linux firmware test kit (see url in
>
> acpi=off fixed this.
> 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
acpi=on had this

> 8: 3673166897 3674697116 IO-APIC-level rtc

spot the level-vs-edge difference.... your acpi interrupt routing looks
bust.


> So I got rid of "interrupt storm" but what I've lost (except poweroff)?

you can get power off with APM as well.

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