From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: timothy parkinson <t@timothyparkinson.com>
Cc: hauan@cmu.edu, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.1 "clock preempt"?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:17:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074885449.12446.27.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040123190205.GA477@h00a0cca1a6cf.ne.client2.attbi.com>
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:02, timothy parkinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:21:45PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > Its likely you need to enable support in the kernel for your IDE
> > controller, or your DMA on your controller isn't supported.
>
> so, apparently the problem was that i just needed to enable dma... which meant
> that i needed to set "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y" in my .config.
>
> been running all night/morning with load - no "losing ticks" message or slowing
> clock yet. thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>
> think we could improve that error message? i'd never have guessed that it was
> hard disk related if you hadn't told me...
Well, lost ticks can be caused by many things, but your point is valid,
the message could be a bit more elightening.
thanks
-john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-23 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 20:36 2.6.1 "clock preempt"? Steinar Hauan
2004-01-20 21:26 ` john stultz
2004-01-21 15:06 ` Steinar Hauan
2004-01-21 18:19 ` john stultz
2004-01-22 19:37 ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-22 19:42 ` john stultz
2004-01-22 19:50 ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-22 19:54 ` john stultz
2004-01-22 20:00 ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-22 21:21 ` john stultz
2004-01-23 19:02 ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-23 19:17 ` john stultz [this message]
2004-01-23 19:36 ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-23 20:06 ` john stultz
2004-01-23 20:38 ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-23 21:04 ` john stultz
2004-01-27 21:30 ` markus reichelt
2004-01-30 23:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-31 0:24 ` timothy parkinson
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