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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 07:00:40PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > So Markus, can you try with 995bd3bb5c78, but by increasing the value
> > to, say 16 (I don't know what's a good value here, let's double the old
> > one). Simply change the line
> > 
> > 	return res < 8 ? -ETIME : 0;
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > 	return res < 16 ? -ETIME : 0;
> > 
> > 
> > in <arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:hpet_next_event()>. I'll do that too on the
> > machine here when I get around to it.
> 
> Yes, I already did this, although I'm running
> return res < 12 ? -ETIME : 0; 
> at the moment.

Any update on this ?

Thanks,

	tglx