Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270691AbVBFItl (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:49:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270692AbVBFItl (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:49:41 -0500 Received: from gprs215-233.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.233]:38801 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270021AbVBFItc (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:49:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:41:42 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Arjan van de Ven , Martin Schwidefsky , Andrea Arcangeli , George Anzinger , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Zwane Mwaikambo , Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1 Message-ID: <20050206084141.GA3192@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050201212542.GA3691@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050201230357.GH14274@atomide.com> <20050202141105.GA1316@elf.ucw.cz> <20050203030359.GL13984@atomide.com> <20050203105647.GA1369@elf.ucw.cz> <20050203164331.GE14325@atomide.com> <20050204051929.GO14325@atomide.com> <20050205230017.GA1070@elf.ucw.cz> <20050206023344.GA15853@atomide.com> <20050206035417.GB15853@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050206035417.GB15853@atomide.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 27 Hi! > > > Ok, works slightly better: time no longer runs 2x too fast. When TSC > > > is used, I get same behaviour as before ("sleepy machine"). With > > > "notsc", machine seems to work okay, but I still get 1000 timer > > > interrupts a second. > > ... > > > > > Sounds like your system is not running with the dyn-tick... I'll try > > to fix that TSC bug. > > The following patch fixes TSC timer with dyn-tick, and local APIC > timer on UP system with CONFIG_SMP. Tried that and got same "sleepy machine" behaviour. But now I realized that I have PREEMPT and CPUFREQ enabled; I'll try disabling them. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/