Re: Ottawa Linux Power Management Summit, June 25-26, 2007 - Minutes

Dave Jones
2007-09-24T19:41:02Z

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:26:39PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > Dave mentioned that Fedora Core 7 32-bit is now shipping with
> > CONFIG_NOHZ=y and CONFIG_HZ=1000.
>
> CONFIG_NOHZ is known to break suspend and resume on some machines. These
> problems are being fixed over time, but that's a risky decision for a
> distribution to switch it on by default.

Expect to see everyone else doing the same thing in the next versions.
Without field-testing this stuff it remains busted. A lot of bugs got
found and fixed by having this in Fedora that weren't tripped over
by linux-kernel testers at all.

Dave

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