Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932910AbXK2ThW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:37:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759568AbXK2ThH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:37:07 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:55025 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757820AbXK2ThE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:37:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:36:24 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Stefano Brivio Cc: Dave Jones , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Buesch , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Len Brown Subject: Re: [BUG] jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3 Message-ID: <20071129193624.GA15245@elte.hu> References: <20071124175112.58193424@morte> <200711241948.58881.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071124194635.58f5a44b@morte> <200711242031.26134.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071129095034.24b3fc59@morte> <20071129103511.GD10577@elte.hu> <20071129174548.GC12481@redhat.com> <20071129185743.46daa8ad@morte> <20071129182402.GE12481@redhat.com> <20071129202546.7a65a13c@morte> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071129202546.7a65a13c@morte> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 27 * Stefano Brivio wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:02 -0500 > Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:57:43PM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote: > > > > Do you want me to comment out adjust_jiffies() and see what happens? > > > > Just for laughs, why not. > > I wanted to laugh, but the behaviour didn't change at all. How boring. just to make sure there is no tsc impact, does booting with "notsc" change anything? if not, does booting with idle=halt or idle=poll help? [your power usage will go up so it's not very useful - but it could help exclude a few sources of trouble.] 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/