Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161155AbWJDIEU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 04:04:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161153AbWJDIEU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 04:04:20 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37084 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161155AbWJDIER (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 04:04:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:55:40 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Jim Gettys , John Stultz , David Woodhouse , Arjan van de Ven , Dave Jones Subject: Re: [patch] clockevents: drivers for i386, fix #2 Message-ID: <20061004075540.GA31415@elte.hu> References: <20061001225720.115967000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> <20061002210053.16e5d23c.akpm@osdl.org> <20061003084729.GA24961@elte.hu> <20061003103503.GA6350@elte.hu> <20061003203620.d85df9c6.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004064620.GA22364@elte.hu> <20061004003228.98ec3b39.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061004003228.98ec3b39.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.8 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.8 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 27 * Andrew Morton wrote: > None of the interrupts are doing anything wrong. oprofile shows > nothing alarming. > > Disabling cpufreq in config doesn't fix it. > > Userspace can count to a billion in 3.9 seconds when this problem is > present, which is the same time as it takes on a non-slow kernel. > > `sleep 5' takes 5 seconds. > > Yet initscripts take a long time (especially applying the ipfilter > firewall rues for some reason), and `startx' takes a long time, etc. > This kernel takes 112 seconds to boot to a login prompt - other > kernels take 56 seconds (interesting ratio..) hm, do you have the NMI watchdog enabled by any chance? [in particular, do you have nmi_watchdog=2?] Although your bootlog does not show it. Ingo - 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/