Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:39:30 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Gabriel C <crazy@frugalware.org>
Subject: Re: Clocksource tsc is always unstable with 2.6.25-* kernels and
 CONFIG_NO_HZ=y on my box
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Gabriel C wrote:
> >>> Booting nohz=off fixes that.
> >>>
> >>> Another strange thing is when I try to boot that kernel with
> >>> clocksource=acpi_pm it just hangs.

What happens if you add clocksource=acpi_pm and nohz=off to the kernel
commandline ?

> >> Please post your full dmesg output.
> > 
> > Yes please.
>
> dmesg's from 2.6.25-rc3 witch nohz={on,off} , lspci , dmidecode and
> the used config for this kernel can be found there :
>
> http://frugalware.org/~crazy/dmesg/lara/

Hmm. Nothing really obvious.

Thanks,
	tglx
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