Re: [2.6.4-rc2] bogus semicolon behind if()

[Thomas Schlichter]

Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 17:51 schrieb Maciej W. Rozycki:

~~ snip ~~

>  You need timer_ack set to one when either:
>
> 1. you use the I/O APIC NMI watchdog and you have a discrete APIC chip
> (i.e. the 82489DX),
>
> or:
>
> 2. the timer interrupt (IRQ 0) goes through one of the APICs (whatever
> way; we check three variations) and the TSC is non-functional (absent or
> disabled).
>
> Since you have an integrated APIC and you use the TSC, you may have
> timer_ack set to zero.  That saves a few (possibly slow) I/O accesses and
> works around problems that may arise due 8259A clone (in)compatibility or
> bugs in SMM firmware.
>
>   Maciej

Well, my timer interrupt goes through the IO-APIC but I do have a functional 
TSC. Nevertheless my system requires timer_ack to be set... If it isn't, my 
CPU does not utilize its C2 state...

  Thomas

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