Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> > > > It could also be that the reprogamming of PIT timer does not work on
> > > > your machine. I chopped off the udelays there... Can you try
> > > > something like this:
> > > 
> > > I added the udelays, but behaviour did not change.
> > 
> > Yeah, and if the first patch was working better, that means the PIT
> > interrupts work. I'll do another version of the patch where PIT
> > interrupts work again without local APIC needed, let's see what
> > happens with that.

I see in the patch that you're reprogramming the PIT for a periodic mode 
(2) but using dyn_tick->skip as the period. Is this intentional? I thought 
you wanted a oneshot for that.
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