HPET timekeeping
	Part I. Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted)

HPET timekeeping

Jurjen Bokma

I kept getting messages like set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59, every now and then, and they would come in batches. The PC would slow down a lot, and timekeeping would miss several hours within a few hours. Just prior to such a batch of set_rtc_mmss messages, I would see one Clocksource tsc unstable message.

So I read a mail thread, a forum and another thread, and also some ntp.org docs. Then I

removed the boot parameters
```
noapic nolapic acpi=off
```
,
and added boot parameter
```
clocksource=hpet
```
,
and rebooted.

Now the hpet is time source:

jurjen@host:~$ sudo cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksourcehpet


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