Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752222AbWKBIVS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 03:21:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752211AbWKBIVS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 03:21:18 -0500 Received: from ns2.uludag.org.tr ([193.140.100.220]:41382 "EHLO uludag.org.tr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751886AbWKBIVR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 03:21:17 -0500 From: "=?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur" Reply-To: caglar@pardus.org.tr Organization: =?utf-8?q?T=C3=9CB=C4=B0TAK_/?= UEKAE To: Mark Lord Subject: Re: 2.6.18 is problematic in VMware Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:21:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Zachary Amsden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com References: <4547584F.6000702@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4547584F.6000702@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2477084.5AFRIuNAYv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611021021.12001.caglar@pardus.org.tr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1412 Lines: 44 --nextPart2477084.5AFRIuNAYv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 31 Eki 2006 Sal 16:06 tarihinde, Mark Lord =C5=9Funlar=C4=B1 yazm=C4=B1=C5= =9Ft=C4=B1:=20 > My experience with VMware on several recent processors (mostly P-M family) > is that it crawls unless I force this first: > echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate > > So I use a wrapper script around VMware (workstation) to save max_cstate, > set it to 1, and restore it again on exit. Hmm, this seems related to that one[1], without setting max_cstate my=20 processors has some issues :) [1] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D7376 =2D-=20 S.=C3=87a=C4=9Flar Onur http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/ Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in hou= se! --nextPart2477084.5AFRIuNAYv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFSap3y7E6i0LKo6YRArJPAJwNxZLUiSakTQaZIaVpNb4tDIyW5wCfbKrj ueJp3qT/c3PODu3TSqmsP3o= =heae -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2477084.5AFRIuNAYv-- - 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/