Re: [PATCH] fix to clock running too fast

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 24 2005 - 09:46:01 EST



* Akira Tsukamoto <akira-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This one line patch adds upper bound testing inside timer_irq_works()
> when evaluating whether irq timer works or not on boot up.
>
> It fix the machines having problem with clock running too fast.
>
> What this patch do is, if timer interrupts running too fast through
> IO-APIC IRQ then false back to i8259A IRQ.

thanks - looks good to me.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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