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Subject: Re: Timekeeping hosed by factor 3, high lapic[01] interrupt rates
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On Tuesday 28 June 2005 05:07 pm, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> John et al,
>
> # Forget SMP and go back to UP for now.  Turn off ntpd if you are using it,
> then # do something like this:
> #
> # # ntpdate ntp.xxxx ; sleep 10 ; ntpdate ntp.xxxx
> #
> # And try it both with the timecounter set to TSC and with the timecounter
> set # to i8254.
>
> Here we go, kernel with your second patch, boot with kern.smp.disabled=1.

Can you get the same ntpdate output for the kernel without the patch?

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