Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Milan Plzik <milan.plzik@gmail.com>
cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Possible CPU_IDLE bug [WAS: Re: Timer unstability on when using
 C2 and deeper sleep states (Dell Latitude XT)]
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Milan Plzik wrote:
>   I tried it just now, is performs a bit better than 2.6.26 (e.g. I
> don't get that "press any key unless nothing happens" states), even
> reports a bit more reasonable values of wakeups, but the system
> sometimes becomes rather slow (e.g. when playing video). I was not able
> to compile fglrx driver, so I had to change it to radeon one. And also,
> the number of wakeups reported is not very convincing, though, it
> changes from 300 to 600 (which is ~ two times the sum of wakeups)
> without any reason, and sometimes goes even higher.
> 
>   I tried to use nolapic_timer option, but it didn't help.

Can you please try "hpet=disable" on the kernel command line ?

Thanks,
	tglx
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