Re: 256 apic id for amd64

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 07:46:46 EST


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:06:35PM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> Andi,
>
> I made the Opteron using apic id from 16 later in LinuxBIOS.
>
> So leave 0-15 for ioapic.
>
> The problem is that the kernel (caliberate_delay) doesn't like that.
>
> If using lpj=2170880 as the command line for that, it works well.
>
> What's the jiffies? The TSC is changing but it doesn't.

jiffies is a counter of the timer interrupt. Most likely you broke
the timer somehow.

-Andi
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