Re: Freeze due to performance_cx_lowest=LOW

on 29/05/2006 23:10 Nate Lawson said the following:
> 
> disable apic (hint.apic.0.disabled="1").  I isolated this a little while 
> ago to the change to enable LAPIC timer.  However, there is currently no 
> easy way to disable the LAPIC timer with APIC enabled so you have to 
> disable APIC.  jhb_at_ and I have been discussing how to do this better but 
> no easy answers apparently.

I am not sure what I am talking about, but is it potentially possible to
drive timer system by more than one clock, actively using the most
precise of them at any particular moment ? So that if LAPIC timer stops
i8254 can be used instead.


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Andriy Gapon