Re: [PATCH] i386: disable local apic timer via command line or dmi quirk

[Ingo Molnar]

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The local APIC timer stops to work in deeper C-States. This is handled 
> by the ACPI code and a broadcast mechanism in the clockevents / tick 
> managment code.
> 
> Some systems do not expose the deeper C-States to the kernel, but 
> switch into deeper C-States behind the kernels back. This delays the 
> local apic timer interrupts for ever and makes the systems unusable.
> 
> Add a command line option to disable the local apic timer and a dmi 
> quirk for known broken systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

nice work!

	Ingo
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