Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:00:06 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1
Message-ID: <20050201110006.GA1338@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> Thanks for all the comments, here's an updated version of the dynamic
> tick patch.
> 
> I've fixed couple of things:
> 
> - Dyn-tick now supports local APIC timer. This allows longer sleep time
>   inbetween ticks, over 1000 ticks compared to 54 ticks with PIT timer.
>   It seems to stop timers on SMP too, but I've only briefly played with
>   it on SMP.

I used your config advices from second mail, still it does not work as
expected: system gets "too sleepy". Like it takes a nap during boot
after "dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 1339", and key is
needed to make it continue boot. Then cursor stops blinking and
machine is hung at random intervals during use, key is enough to awake
it.
								Pavel
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