Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761778AbXFJSCn (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:02:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755083AbXFJSCf (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:02:35 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:44982 "EHLO pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754666AbXFJSCe (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:02:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:02:00 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: PROBLEM: system clock slow on Athlon AMD64 since 2.6.21 In-reply-to: To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: ghpille@hotmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <466C3C98.8060800@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1282 Lines: 29 Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:14:03 +0200, Gerard H. Pille wrote: >> [1.] One line summary of the problem: >> Since I switched from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21 on my Athlon AMD64 laptop, the system >> time is slow - about 1' on 15'. > > According to your system description it seems that you have a > Targa Visionary laptop with a VIA chipset and a Mobile Athlon64. > If so, then you probably have the same problem I reported some time > ago: see > and the followup messages. The conclusion was that the chipset's > ACPI PM timer slows down when the CPU is in C2. > > The workaround is to boot with processor.max_cstate=1. Which, if true, is extremely bizarre, as the whole point and reason for existence of the ACPI PM timer is that it NOT do this, and remain at the same rate regardless of CPU power management changes.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/