Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932176AbVKNWCV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:02:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751275AbVKNWCV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:02:21 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:34214 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbVKNWCU (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:02:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B10) From: john stultz To: Frank Sorenson Cc: lkml , Ingo Molnar , Darren Hart , Nishanth Aravamudan , George Anzinger , Roman Zippel , Ulrich Windl , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <4379074D.5060308@tuxrocks.com> References: <20051112044850.8240.91581.sendpatchset@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <4378FFFF.4010706@tuxrocks.com> <1132004327.4668.30.camel@leatherman> <4379074D.5060308@tuxrocks.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:02:15 -0800 Message-Id: <1132005736.4668.34.camel@leatherman> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1578 Lines: 43 On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 14:53 -0700, Frank Sorenson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > john stultz wrote: > > Hmm... Not sure if this is mis-calibration or just bad-interaction w/ > > kthrt. Mind sending a dmesg to me? > > dmesg attached Thanks, I'll start looking into it. > >>and 'pit' seems to produce errors (system will not switch from pit to > >>another clocksource anymore): > > Odd. This time, I got the errors when I switched from acpi_pm (which it > had defaulted to at bootup) to jiffies. System has not locked at one > clocksource yet, though. Yea, jiffies and pit are similarly non-continuous clocksources. > > Do the TOD patches have this issue by themselves, or is this only with > > kthrt? I know I had some issues with non-continuous clocksources (pit, > > jiffies) with the kthrt patch, where it wouldn't fall back to > > non-high-res when the clocksource stopped supporting it. > > I only tried with kthrt because I ran into lots of conflicts when > applying the patches to more recent kernels otherwise. I can try again > with 2.6.14-mm2 in order to test it out. You can alternatively drop the patches in the kthrt set that are after the timeofday patches in Thomas' series file. Or even just disable the high-res config option and see if that changes anything. thanks -john - 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/