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SubjectRE: x86 TSC time warp puzzle
At 3:13 AM -0500 4/2/05, Lee Revell wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 23:05 -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>> It can be SMI happening in the platform. Typically BIOS uses some SMI
> > polling to handle some devices during early boot. Though 500
>microseconds > sounds a bit too high.
>
>Nope, that sounds just about right. Buggy BIOSes that implement ACPI
>via SMM (or so I have been told) can stall the machine for over a
>millisecond, this is why some laptops lose timer ticks at HZ=1000. The
>issue is well known by Linux audio users, as it causes big problems for
>people who buy laptops for live audio use.

This is a desktop board, and this is well after boot (hours). Also,
ACPI is disabled in the BIOS.

I suppose I can try to disable SMI via the APIC?
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/Jonathan Lundell.
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