Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:19:43 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
       "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, pluto@agmk.net,
       john cooper <john.cooper@timesys.com>,
       Benedikt Spranger <bene@linutronix.de>,
       Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
       Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
       George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rt13
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* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> I just had a short burst of key repeats and saw one random screen 
> blank. Right now everything seems normal but I was not allucinating 
> :-)

btw., today i have experienced a 'key repeat' event with the stock FC4 
SMP kernel too, on an X2 athlon. That kernel didnt have idle=poll 
specified, so gettimeofday() could time-warp in substantial ways.

so i'd say the 'key repeat' problem is almost certainly caused by TSC 
"time warps" on X2's.

	Ingo
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