ion with virtual wire > mode causes this strange behaviour. > > ... and I start to think about the root cause of all this. > > I've performed similar tests under X with the IRQ0/INT0 configuration and > I did not see above symptoms. So lets fall back to the IRQ0/INT0 configuration on this box. This basically restores the dont-use-the-lapic-timer exception mechanism that was unconditional on this box prior commit 8750bf5 ("x86: add C1E aware idle function"). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar :l%x