Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer

Andi Kleen
2006-03-04T00:08:54Z

On Saturday 04 March 2006 00:46, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> More likely is a disabled interrupt period is longer than a
> tick period, or similar.

Then the ticks wouldn't be attributed to idle and softirq.
They are both special in that they do an unconditional local_irq_enable()
instead of the usual save/restore.

-Andi