Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757455AbZKKUHC (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:07:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753773AbZKKUHA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:07:00 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:50415 "EHLO mail-iw0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757388AbZKKUG4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:06:56 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=OUKtkNqAxF6GJyKHyw2crw/qL/oU0t0tgemEHreYtBokA1RUA8Ofq3D9VP7OukzeIg 5n4WstvUTVvwOLZT+cZfRi3y4CCygadoEOAf+fE1uh7pi55Tio2ExZXhDQditz8cQdIN KS/gdqqSYnLvReg/26TFk4J3EmRvXUwpl5QkM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:07:01 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b368205947cae72a Message-ID: <1f1b08da0911111207ud6d8f09s8b1f5b6c26375d64@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Kernel: 2.6.31.5: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns: What do these messages mean? From: john stultz To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 857 Lines: 21 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I see these messages in my kernel log: (2.6.31.5) > > [ ? 48.886129] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec > [ 3258.107039] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec > [53705.451463] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec Basically it means setting the hpet timer interrupt failed because the time it took to set it was more then the time requested. Why its taking so long is an open question, but we're looking into it in the following bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14426 thanks -john -- 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/