Intel Atom Elkhart Lake APIC Timer

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Intel Atom Elkhart Lake APIC Timer

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Hello Octocontrabass

as per the information i have read APIC timer ticks of the CPU clock, so what will happen if the SOC throttles its clock, is APIC timer also affected by it

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Re: Intel Atom Elkhart Lake APIC Timer

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Intel SDM wrote:If CPUID.06H:EAX.ARAT[bit 2] = 1, the processor’s APIC timer runs at a constant rate regardless of P-state transitions and it continues to run at the same rate in deep C-states.
CPUID says the APIC timer is not affected.
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