Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

Ingo Molnar
2007-02-23T11:40:07Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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?

Ingo