From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Generic clockevents and no-idle-HZ for PowerPC
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:59:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070907205956.GA8077@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189193188.28781.193.camel@johannes.berg>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:26:28PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 14:16 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:04:51PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 00:44 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > > This creates a clockevent for the PowerPC decrementer and registers it
> > > > with the generic clock/timer system, and implements the dynamic ticks
> > > > (no idle HZ) option for PowerPC.
> > >
> > > I tried both patches applied and with/without CONFIG_NOHZ but my quad G5
> > > won't boot. Anybody else have more luck?
> >
> > Did you try with the two changes I suggested? Patch below.
>
> No, I hadn't dug through mail yet. I'm away from the machine, will give
> it a try early next week. Thanks!
I just verified, and with those fixes I can boot a quad G5 here with:
CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
-Olof
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 14:44 [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Generic clockevents and no-idle-HZ for PowerPC Paul Mackerras
2007-09-06 19:15 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-06 20:03 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-07 14:04 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-07 19:16 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-07 19:26 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-07 20:59 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
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