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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:45:12 +0100
From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:05:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 07:00:40PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > So Markus, can you try with 995bd3bb5c78, but by increasing the value
> > > to, say 16 (I don't know what's a good value here, let's double the old
> > > one). Simply change the line
> > > 
> > > 	return res < 8 ? -ETIME : 0;
> > > 
> > > to
> > > 
> > > 	return res < 16 ? -ETIME : 0;
> > > 
> > > 
> > > in <arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:hpet_next_event()>. I'll do that too on the
> > > machine here when I get around to it.
> > 
> > Yes, I already did this, although I'm running
> > return res < 12 ? -ETIME : 0; 
> > at the moment.
> 
> Any update on this ?

Yes, it runs stable thus far. No "slowdowns", no problems.
-- 
Markus