time issues and ZFS

[Julian Stecklina]

Thus spake Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>:

> In the meantime here is some info:
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645: running with no problems
>   LAPIC(600) HPET(450) HPET1(440) HPET2(440) HPET3(440) i8254(100) RTC(0)
>
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550: this is the problematic, at least for the moment
>   HPET(450) HPET1(440) HPET2(440) HPET3(440) LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)

Does anyone know why the LAPIC is given a lower priority than HPET in
this case? If you have an LAPIC, it should always be prefered to HPET,
unless something is seriously wrong with it...

Julian