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On Mer, 2003-10-22 at 03:50, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The system in question would also lose time when
> under heavy load. Note that HZ is now 1000 HZ.
> If interrupts are kept off for too long or an
> SMI grabs the CPU...

With a lot of laptops this is a huge problem. Its one of the reasons Red
Hat went back to 100Hz in the RH 2.4 tree. With many laptops your clock
becomes junk at 1Khz. It will be interesting to see if the ACPI timers
help but that wont solve things for older laptops.

BTW another one for the list might be the SiS IRQ routing fixes from 2.4
if not merged otherwise newer sis and some older intel wont work
properly.