Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262792AbUKRRVC (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:21:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262796AbUKRRUz (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:20:55 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]:33927 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262799AbUKRRTe (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:19:34 -0500 From: kernel-stuff@comcast.net To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:19:32 +0000 Message-Id: <111820041719.26527.419CD9A40001750D0000679F220073544600009A9B9CD3040A029D0A05@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Nov 11 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: a2VybmVsLXN0dWZmQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 24 I will send it shorltly - Till then another update - I disabled ACPI Thermal stuff and the Lost ticks due to acpi_ec_read got cured. (This was without Andi's NVIDIA Timer override patch.) Parry. > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 kernel-stuff@comcast.net wrote: > > > I tried all the newer kernels including -ac. All have the same problem. > > > > Andi - On a side note, your change "NVidia ACPI timer override" present > > in 2.6.9-ac8 breaks on my laptop - I get some NMI errors ("Do you have a > > unusual power management setup?") and DMA timeouts - happens regularly. > > Interesting, could you send your dmesg, from booting with the 'debug' > kernel parameter. Also the output from dmidecode and lspci would be nice. > > Thanks, > Zwane > - 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/