Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752094AbWCEHIV (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:08:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752122AbWCEHIV (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:08:21 -0500 Received: from 63.15.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.15.63]:22458 "EHLO sydlxfw01.samad.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752094AbWCEHIV (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:08:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 18:07:13 +1100 To: Martin Schlemmer Cc: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Jeff Garzik , Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Jason Baron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer Message-ID: <20060305070713.GF12510@samad.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Schlemmer , "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Jeff Garzik , Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Jason Baron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz , Ingo Molnar References: <200602280022.40769.darkray@ic3man.com> <200603011647.34516.ak@suse.de> <20060301180714.GD20092@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <200603011929.59307.ak@suse.de> <1141240611.5860.176.camel@mindpipe> <20060303191822.GE32407@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <1141421204.3042.139.camel@mindpipe> <4408BEB5.7000407@garzik.org> <20060303234330.GA14401@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <1141474005.7859.22.camel@lycan.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Zs/RYxT/hKAHzkfQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1141474005.7859.22.camel@lycan.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Alexander Samad Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2541 Lines: 80 --Zs/RYxT/hKAHzkfQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:06:45PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 18:43 -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:09:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Or sata_nv/libata is to blame. > > =20 > > In case you are coming late to the thread: > >=20 > > The lost ticks are closely correlated with sata_nv disk activity on > > multiple disks, and the problem is easily reproducable with "find /usr | > > cpio -o >/dev/null" on an MD RAID1 -- but not on a single disk. > >=20 > > Andi suggested: > >=20 > > Yes, I bet something forgets to turn on interrupts again and it's > > picked up by (and blamed on) the next guy who does an unconditional > > sti, which happens to be __do_sofitrq or idle. > >=20 > > That sounds right to me. > >=20 > > I built 2.6.16-rc5-git6 yesterday, and it still suffers from the same > > issue. > >=20 >=20 > Not sure this will help in anyway, but anyhow. Hi just to throw my 2c, I have a shuttle sn25p with a amd 2x 4400+, under normal conditions I don't see any mising tick, but when I hammer the network and the raid5 lvm I start to see missing ticks and the same error message mentioned before. I am using debian 2.6.15 amd64 >=20 > I have had this system for about 6-8 months (maybe 10) now. It was > originally a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with a 3200+ Athlon64. In November I > changed to a Asus A8N-SLI Premium, and added another 1GB memory (now > have 2GB memory). In all that time I have not had any issues with lost > ticks, but I was hesitant to get a X2 processor due to the issue that > some people had. snip .. >=20 > If anything might be of relevance, or you want me to try something, just > say it. Same with extra info that might be needed. >=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > --=20 > Martin Schlemmer >=20 --Zs/RYxT/hKAHzkfQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFECo4gkZz88chpJ2MRAugIAKC2++xeArWmLq0k4xHxy8dlYnSQcACYxb0Z Oa6T2hVMEUvOrdNtGhPQUQ== =xCsi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Zs/RYxT/hKAHzkfQ-- - 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/