Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751312AbVKNXZZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751314AbVKNXZZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:25 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:6790 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751312AbVKNXZY (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:24 -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: <437918A0.8000308@tuxrocks.com> References: <20051112044850.8240.91581.sendpatchset@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <4378FFFF.4010706@tuxrocks.com> <1132004327.4668.30.camel@leatherman> <4379074D.5060308@tuxrocks.com> <1132005736.4668.34.camel@leatherman> <437918A0.8000308@tuxrocks.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:25:23 -0800 Message-Id: <1132010724.4668.40.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: 1266 Lines: 29 On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:07 -0700, Frank Sorenson wrote: > >>john stultz wrote: > >>>Hmm... Not sure if this is mis-calibration or just bad-interaction w/ > >>>kthrt. Mind sending a dmesg to me? > > Okay, the c3tsc clock drift is definitely not an interaction with kthrt. > Here is 2.6.14-mm2 + the TOD B10 patches: > 14 Nov 15:54:52 offset: -0.003031 drift: -3091.0 ppm > 14 Nov 15:55:52 offset: -0.184073 drift: -3018.57377049 ppm > 14 Nov 15:56:52 offset: -0.345268 drift: -2853.95041322 ppm > 14 Nov 15:57:53 offset: -0.463002 drift: -2544.2967033 ppm > 14 Nov 15:58:53 offset: -0.587743 drift: -2428.93801653 ppm > > Running just 2.6.14-mm2 + TOD B10, I seem to be unable to reproduce the > Badness errors, and the clocksource has not frozen at one setting. > > I can provide a dmesg if needed. Hrm.. How about sending a dmesg of just vanilla 2.6.14-mm2? Also does the behavior change booting w/ idle=poll ? Thanks so much for the problem report and testing, btw! -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/