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Subject: Re: ktimers in RT causing bad bogomips and more.
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 	if (!hres->active)
> 		return CLOCK_EVT_RUN_CYCLIC;

I'm searching for the brown paperbag. 

Thats the startup code before switching over to high resolution, so it
should return 1, nothing else.

CLOCK_EVT_RUN_CYCLIC is a leftover of the initial implementation, which
did not take tick overruns into account. 

Thanks,

	tglx