Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, kernel-stuff wrote:

> Ignore my earlier mail about the DMA timeouts and NMI errors after applying 
> the ACPI timer override patch.  My bad.  I forgot to recompile the modules 
> after I applied your patch - and I believe thats what caused those errors. 
> I recompiled and reinstalled the modules this time and no errors [well, apart 
> from those lost ticks, which anyway is a separate issue]  with the ACPI Timer 
> override for NVIDIA chipset. 
> 
> Alan - Needless to say you should keep Andi's NVIDIA ACPI Timer override patch 
> in -ac. It works.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion!

Thanks for confirming that Parry, so your system definitely is using the 
IOAPIC now (/proc/interrupts output should suffice)?

	Zwane
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