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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c
Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 14:18 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>
>>In my experience, turning off DMA for IDE disks is a pretty good way to
>>generate lost ticks :-)
>
>
> For this to "work" you have to unset "unmask IRQ" with hdparm, right?

I'm not familiar with that method. When I've experienced this it's been
due to me accidentally not configuring IDE DMA during configuration.

Peter
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