From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269173AbUHaUmg (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:42:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267720AbUHaUmZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:42:25 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:13018 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269192AbUHaUl3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:41:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 From: Lee Revell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Daniel Schmitt , "K.R. Foley" , Felipe Alfaro Solana , linux-kernel , Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com In-Reply-To: <20040831203900.GB2356@elte.hu> References: <20040831070658.GA31117@elte.hu> <1093980065.1603.5.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040831193734.GA29852@elte.hu> <1093981634.1633.2.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040831195107.GA31327@elte.hu> <20040831200912.GA32378@elte.hu> <1093983034.1633.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040831201420.GA899@elte.hu> <20040831202051.GA1111@elte.hu> <1093984452.1596.0.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040831203900.GB2356@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1093984886.1596.3.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:41:26 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 16:39, Ingo Molnar wrote: > hm, this doesnt seem to be an mtrr latency - this is a text-console > blanking operation apparently running with the BKL enabled. > Yes, this seemed strange to me too, but I reproduced this several times, even across reboots. This one must have been happening right before the MTRR initialization, and was getting masked by it. Lee