linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Johan Borkhuis <j.borkhuis@dutchspace.nl>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Problems enabling NTP on ELDK
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:48:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905184827.26859247AF@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:29:38 +0200." <46DE9322.7080901@dutchspace.nl>

In message <46DE9322.7080901@dutchspace.nl> you wrote:
> 
> I tried enabling NTP on my embedded machine (using ELDK 4.1, ppc_85xx, 
> kernel version 2.6.14 with Xenomai 2.3.2). After I did that I noticed 
> that ksoftirqd/0 suddenly took almost all processor time (> 95%). What 
> is causing this? Is there a way around this, or is this something that 
> does not cause any problems?

You probably have some poroblems in your kernel port - check the  RTC
driver  and  related  modules like I2C etc. Of course this depends on
the NTP configuration you use, but the only kernel interaction I  can
think  of  that  could cause this is if you interact with the RTC. [I
guess that normal network traffic is working fine on your board.]

BTW: ELDK 4.1 comes with a 2.6.19.2  kernel  -  is  there  a  special
reason that you use such an obsoletel kernel tree?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,     MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de
Bankers do it with interest (penalty for early withdrawal).

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-05 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05 11:29 Problems enabling NTP on ELDK Johan Borkhuis
2007-09-05 18:48 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2007-09-06  7:43   ` Johan Borkhuis

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070905184827.26859247AF@gemini.denx.de \
    --to=wd@denx.de \
    --cc=j.borkhuis@dutchspace.nl \
    --cc=linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).