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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 12:06:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074888405.12447.41.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040123193635.GA492@h00a0cca1a6cf.ne.client2.attbi.com>

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:36, timothy parkinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > Well, lost ticks can be caused by many things, but your point is valid,
> > the message could be a bit more elightening. 
> 
> googling for this issue turns up quite a few questions about it - there's
> already one possible answer in the source, couldn't hurt to stick in a few
> more:
> 
> 
>       if (lost_count++ > 100) {
>               printk(KERN_WARNING "Losing too many ticks!\n");
>               printk(KERN_WARNING "TSC cannot be used as a timesource.\n"
>                     "Are you running with SpeedStep?\n"
> +                   "Perhaps you should enable DMA using \"hdparm\"?\n"
> +                   "etc..........)\n");
>               printk(KERN_WARNING "Falling back to a sane timesource.\n");
>               clock_fallback();
>       }
> 
> not that you have to actually listen to me or anything...  :-)

Looks good by me. Would you mind sending such a patch to Andrew?

thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-23 20:09 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
2004-01-23 19:36                       ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-23 20:06                         ` john stultz [this message]
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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