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Date:      Sun, 2 May 2004 21:20:45 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c
Message-ID:  <20040502211748.X649@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040501184603.I1080@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <200404272003.i3RK3RFZ048001@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040430221434.J749@odysseus.silby.com> <20040501044209.L704@odysseus.silby.com> <20040501184603.I1080@odysseus.silby.com>

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On Sat, 1 May 2004, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> On Sat, 1 May 2004, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > HZ=1000 instead of the default of HZ=10 increases the chance of the
> > timer wrapping while DELAY() is interrupted.  This shouldn't be a
> > problem for TSC calibration.
>
> Apparently it is a problem, somehow. :)

I checked that CPU interruptes are disabled here.  They still are.  So
the calibration can't be interrupted by a maskable interrupt.

Bruce



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