Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 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?

s/does not occur/does occur/

we switch off the PIT whenever we can.

	Ingo
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