Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752823AbXLCVrb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:47:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751324AbXLCVrS (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:47:18 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:38696 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751296AbXLCVrQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:47:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:47:56 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped? Message-ID: <20071203214756.GB8704@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20071202183048.GC4721@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 35 On Mon 2007-12-03 22:45:06, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > I compiled a .24-ish kernel for it with CONFIG_NO_HZ and > > > CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. To get the system boot at least sometimes I have > > > to specify nohz=off. Then I get > > > > Try highres=off, too... Hehe, and even idle=poll might help. > > Ok, for now I've compiled a kernel with all "advanced" features off like > hrt, nohz. Will see how it behaves. But thanks for the hints. Let us know... > > > CR0: 8005003b CR2: 081dcf88 CR3: 07e46000 CR4: 000002d0 > > > DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 > > > DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 > > > [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 > > > [] show_trace+0x12/0x20 > > > > ...and disable softlockup watchdog, too... > > So, you think those BUGs are bogus? Well.... you want to make old machine usable, right? Disabling warnings is fair game. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/