Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

[Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>]

On 07/18/2013 02:28 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
> The kernel without the patch set has the "Using epoch 2000" line and
> the kernel with the patch set is missing the "Using epoch 2000" line.

Ah hah.  You appear to be missing CONFIG_RTC_DRV_ALPHA in the new kernel, so
you have no support for the RTC at all.  Please re-try.

> On the kernel without the patch set the dummy-RTC timer interrupt received
> 30876 interrupts in a 30s period which is within measurement uncertainty of
> the expected 30*1024 = 30720 interrupts.
> 
> On the kernel with the patch set the dummy-RTC timer interrupt received 14419 
> interrupts on CPU-1, 13935 interrupts on CPU-2 and 2619 interrupts on CPU-3
> over a 30s period.

Grr.  Naturally, the old kernel obfuscates which timers are being delivered
where.  So a direct comparison doesn't appear possible.  But those separated
numbers seem uncomfortably low.

I've just pushed a new branch to

  git://github.com/rth7680/linux.git axp-qemu-7

Please try that with CONFIG_ALPHA_WTINT disabled.  I'd like to eliminate that
as a source of uncertainty for your system.


r~