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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1
    On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Tony Lindgren wrote:

    > Yes, it's safer to keep the timer periodic, although it's
    > used for oneshot purposes for the skips. If the timer interrupt
    > got missed for some reason, the system would be able to recover when
    > it's in periodic mode.
    >
    > And with some timers, we can do the reprogramming faster, as we just
    > need to load the new value.
    >
    > I could not figure out how to disable the interrupts for PIT
    > when local APIC is used and the ticks to skip is longer than PIT
    > would allow. So I just changed the mode temporarily to disable it.
    >
    > Does anybody know if there's a way to stop PIT interrupts while
    > keeping it in the periodic mode?

    disable_irq(0) ?
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