Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 07:01:55 EST


> Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset
> level.

Doing so would be wasteful though. Both AMD and Intel CPUs need SMM code
for the deeper C* sleep states.

-Andi
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