linux-kernel - Re: Clockevents: one-shoot mode is never enabled if local apic timer is disabled

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Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:29:40 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clockevents: one-shoot mode is never enabled if local apic
	timer is disabled

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:23 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Fortunately on my system lapic timer works.
> But then tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot is redundant, isn't it? 

No, it's necessary for the systems where the local APIC timer stops in
C3(C2), as we do not know this at the point where we setup the local
APIC. 

	tglx



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