Re: Clockevents: one-shoot mode is never enabled if local apictimer is disabled

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 06:29:49 EST


On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:23 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Fortunately on my system lapic timer works.
> But then tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot is redundant, isn't it?

No, it's necessary for the systems where the local APIC timer stops in
C3(C2), as we do not know this at the point where we setup the local
APIC.

tglx



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