Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030281AbWJCUAX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:00:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030267AbWJCUAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:00:22 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:54995 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030281AbWJCUAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:00:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] dynticks core: Fix idle time accounting From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Jim Gettys , John Stultz , David Woodhouse , Arjan van de Ven , Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <200610022135.k92LZHCn008618@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20061001225720.115967000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> <200610021302.k92D23W1003320@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1159796582.1386.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200610021825.k92IPSnd008215@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1159814606.1386.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200610022017.k92KH4Ch004773@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1159824158.1386.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200610022135.k92LZHCn008618@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:02:30 +0200 Message-Id: <1159905750.1386.215.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 17:35 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > We could "pump up" the relative counts - if 1 no-hz tick would have been 5ms > long, increment the count by 5 rather than 1 (for an alledged 1khz tick). > However, when we do that, we break the property that the sum of the ticks > in the 'cpu0' line is equal to the number of timer interrupts reported in the > 'intr' line. I found a way to fix my thinkos. I put up a queue with all fixes to: http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.18-mm3/patch-2.6.18-mm3-hrt-dyntick1.patches.tar.bz2 Can you please verify if it makes your problem go away ? tglx - 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/