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From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
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Subject: Re: Clock speedup on 4.X FreeBSD SMP and serverworks chipset
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Hi,

I tested your patch and it solved our problem 100%. There's no
timedrift anymore.

Do you think the patch will make it in 4.4R. ? We need it urgently.

Thanks a lot for your analysis and your fast work !

Martin

> --- apic_vector.s.old	Fri Mar  2 13:47:31 2001
> +++ apic_vector.s	Fri Aug 31 01:07:53 2001
> @@ -707,7 +707,12 @@
>  	FAST_INTR(21,fastintr21)
>  	FAST_INTR(22,fastintr22)
>  	FAST_INTR(23,fastintr23)
> -#define	CLKINTR_PENDING	movl $1,CNAME(clkintr_pending)
> +#define	CLKINTR_PENDING	pushl $clock_lock;		\
> +			call s_lock;			\
> +			movl $1,CNAME(clkintr_pending);	\
> +			call s_unlock;			\
> +			addl $4, %esp
> +


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