My problems with stability on -current

[Andriy Gapon]

on 10/05/2011 05:05 Jason Hellenthal said the following:
> 
> Alexander,
> 
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:29:25AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> On 10.05.2011 02:48, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, so kern.eventtimer.timer="LAPIC" in /boot/loader.conf should do
>>> that, right?
>>
>> Yes. You can do it in run-time also.
> 
> Not quite absolutely sure here but IIRC the last time I tried setting that 
> via loader.conf in 8-STABLE it was not being set so I eventually added it 
> to sysctl.conf. Just for reference I never looked into it further.

Perhaps you are confusing selection of eventtimer with choice of timecounter?
For the latter indeed there is no tunable, which is a small annoyance.

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Andriy Gapon