Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > Ok perhaps on the resume side instead. When trying to resume can you try 
> > booting with 'dyntick=disable'. Note this isn't meant to be a long term fix 
> > but once we figure out where the problem is we should be able to code around 
> > it.
> 
> Can you reproduce it using plain swsusp?
> 
> We probably need more carefull suspend/resume support on timer with dyntick
> enabled.
> 
> With vanilla, timer just ticks on constant rate; no state to save.
> With dyntick, however...

Why not just set it to a fixed frequency, suspend and then on boot resume 
to a fixed frequency and let the timer tick code eventually switch back.
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