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From: "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: (progress on hpet accuracy) and Re: [PATCH] Add a
	timer mode that disables pending missed ticks
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:53:32 -0700
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> >Do you see and simply ignore warning messages from 64-bit =

> Linux when using
> >hpet (or otherwise not doing missed-tick handling in Xen), =

> by the way? I
> >know 64-bit Linux is keen to warn about missed ticks, =

> although it does look
> >like at least the warning is one shot.
> >
> >
> I see the one shot messages on 64 bit and no complaints at =

> all on 4u432
> Linux.
> And I have been ignoring them.

Code to print the complaints is x86_64-specific in 2.6.9 and 2.6.18.
On 64-bit, a command line parameter of "report_lost_ticks" will
enable a complaint for every lost tick.

As of 2.6.24, the lost ticks message seems to have gone away
completely.