Re: [PATCH] preset loops_per_jiffy for faster booting

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:28 pm, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> +         Note that on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs
> +         which will cause problems if for some reason your CPUs need
> +         significantly divergent settings.
> +
> +         If unsure, set this to 0. An incorrect value will cause delays in
> +         the kernel to be wrong, leading to unpredictable I/O errors and
> +         other breakage.  Although unlikely, in the extreme case this might
> +         damage your hardware.
> 

Note that it may also not work correctly on laptops that switch frequency
when working on battery/AC. Also one needs to be careful when changing
timesource (pit, tsc, pm, hpet). And always look out for timer code changes
in next version of kernel. Does 250 ms worth all this pain?

-- 
Dmitry
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