Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261307AbUKBRF5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:05:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261453AbUKBRCN (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:02:13 -0500 Received: from hostmaster.org ([212.186.110.32]:12930 "EHLO hostmaster.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261251AbUKBQ6u (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:58:50 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 Dual Opteron glitches From: Thomas Zehetbauer To: Daniel Egger Cc: Linux Mailing List Kernel In-Reply-To: <5AC1EEB8-2CD7-11D9-BF00-000A958E35DC@fhm.edu> References: <5AC1EEB8-2CD7-11D9-BF00-000A958E35DC@fhm.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SjBXJAX9n39Qg5l6oSY+" Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:58:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1099414727.4618.11.camel@hostmaster.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2785 Lines: 84 --=-SjBXJAX9n39Qg5l6oSY+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I am using a not-so-new Tyan Thunder K8W S2885 based Dual Opteron System. On Die, 2004-11-02 at 14:59 +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:=20 > 1) 32 bit kernel HPET calibration hang: If the kernel is compiled Cannot tell as I am using a 64-bit kernel without HPET. Can someone maybe tell me which applications use HPET yet? > 2) 64 bit kernel vgettimeofday panic: The kernel panics in Cannot confirm this, both 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9 boot OK. > 3) Interrupt distribution 32 bit vs. 64 bit. Below is a copy of the Cannot confirm this, interrupts seem to be almost equally distributed with 64-bit kernel and irqbalance running. Did you note that x86_64 does not provide in-kernel IRQ balancing. CPU0 CPU1 0: 2921345 2988327 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 5767 5414 IO-APIC-edge i8042 3: 2 147 IO-APIC-edge serial 4: 23806 21183 IO-APIC-edge serial 8: 2 37 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 14: 77847 72327 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 21317 29959 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 216766 217251 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1, mga@pci:0000:05:00.0 17: 0 0 IO-APIC-level AMD AMD8111 19: 182493 182216 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd, ohci_hcd 24: 317611 1085 IO-APIC-level eth0 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 5908168 5908259 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 > 4) ACPI powermanagement (32bit and 64bit): No matter which ACPI options AFAIK power management is almost unsupported on SMP systems. Tom --=20 T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@hostmaster.org for key Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me." --=-SjBXJAX9n39Qg5l6oSY+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUAQYe8x2D1OYqW/8uJAQJF7QgAiBL/dbvgqxvFXdJrsg3BPDg2qX8/lrle FBn+P880ewQ6pRpnTWjyhm5ZtpxZgO9HXwoP9zOnpz4/rX6tyMc8waR5vEVvqRvu 3zCFzRru9KOYdxOrGUtbpQzn5B6mpzjVNPdgppQu54uRJ8co7CHa4K5DWhvy/FOZ GjrFyc26BmFsYF/9tlZ1iz1wFSH+PlH3uxoCTt8vPK0Jfgk4IgFDI6JD8g4kQfv6 y0FfdfHL1i0GD4SyQCCVkFtMhWMLltfOCgiRnRXr8zSd4I8kWKgc6AQEaQWtFpPB ArV3sQ8Zm7483ID5nrFxvLEW3LJBJtqIgsZkV9xGAmDiIl3bQ5KZ2w== =s727 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SjBXJAX9n39Qg5l6oSY+-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/