Re: [patch] i386 dynamic ticks 2.6.13-rc4 (code reordered)

Con Kolivas
2005-08-02T14:09:33Z

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:01, Avuton Olrich wrote:
> OK, I rolled my own patch, 2.6.13-rc4-ck1-reiser4+this patch and it
> appears to be running on my desktop Asus A7N8X very well:
>
> I am running with Local APIC/IO-APIC/APIC Timer and forceapic. Time
> does not appear to be running slow, and I do not appear to have a slow
> boot.

Great!

> sbh@rocket ~ $ cat /sys/devices/system/timer/timer0/dyn_tick_state
> suitable: 1
> enabled: 1
> using APIC: 1

Tony as an aside, I notice I get much lower Hz values (less than half) on my
P4 if I'm running without using APIC although everything appears to run
stable in either configuration. Is this expected behaviour?

Cheers,
Con