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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_NO_HZ: missed ticks, stall (keyb IRQ required) [2.6.18-rc4-mm1]
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:36:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163014620.8335.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061107222711.GA22612@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 23:27 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> I applied the patch, the changes *are* in the tree and I did create and
> install a new image (with CONFIG_NO_HZ re-enabled and C1 hard-wiring removed),
> but it failed again, completely. The usual hang during boot with
> keyboard activity required, and then it didn't even manage to finish booting
> (I probably was too slow in generating the necessary amount of events).
> 
> Let me think a bit about that stuff, maybe I'll be able to figure out what's
> happening on my system. Or any other ideas?
> (since I would like to somehow get this resolved without less than perfect
> workarounds if possible)

Yes, I'm going to drop the detection as it can never be perfect and
enforce the PIT usage on UP boxen, as it seems that the lapic / BIOS
crap is more or less unfixable. Working on a patch against rc5-mm1 right
now.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-08 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-01 14:07 CONFIG_NO_HZ: missed ticks, stall (keyb IRQ required) [2.6.18-rc4-mm1] Andreas Mohr
2006-11-01 21:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-02  0:18   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-02  7:31     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-02  8:14       ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-02 17:22         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-02 19:28           ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-02 20:34             ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-03  0:06               ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-06 16:20                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-06 20:58                   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-07  6:41                     ` Len Brown
2006-11-07  8:07                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-07  8:25                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-07  9:16                           ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-07  9:28                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-07  9:45                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-11-07 22:27                                 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-08 19:36                                   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-11-14  6:34                         ` Len Brown
2006-11-07  8:18                       ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-07  8:24                         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-14  6:27                         ` Len Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-14 17:21 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2006-11-14 17:30 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-14 18:04   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-12-17 15:58 ` Tobias Diedrich
2006-11-14 18:06 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2006-11-14 20:30 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-14 21:00   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-11-14 21:18     ` Andreas Mohr

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