Re: Missed jiffies

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:33:34 +0000 (GMT)

> If the TSC is affected by HLT, throttling, or C2 power management, the
> TSC is broken (as it is on Cyrix chips, for example.) The TSC usually
> *is* affected by C3 power management, but the OS should be aware of
> C3.

ACPI is irrelevant to the machines in question. This is all APM era stuff
and yes some people change the base clock, not stpclk. The cyrix hlt is
already handled
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