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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: clocksource change of behavior in 2.6.22 compared to 2.6.20 causes massive system clock slowdown
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:28:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184088500.30575.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070710002935.f082b7c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 00:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:27:59 +0200 "Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My oldish AMD K7-800's clock began falling behind after
> >  rebooting from 2.6.20 (and 109 days uptime with a spotless
> >  clock) into 2.6.22; time lost is about four minutes each hour.
> > 
> > Turns out that 2.6.22 marks my TSC as unstable and starts
> >  using PIT instead. Rebooting 2.6.22 with clocksource=tsc
> >  gets the original stable system time back.

Alessandro,
Can you send me dmesg output for 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 (without
clocksource=tsc)?

thanks
-john


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 14:27 clocksource change of behavior in 2.6.22 compared to 2.6.20 causes massive system clock slowdown Alessandro Suardi
2007-07-10  7:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-10 17:28   ` john stultz [this message]
2007-07-10 23:31     ` Alessandro Suardi
2007-07-11 21:06       ` john stultz
2007-07-12 11:03         ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-07-17 22:31         ` Alessandro Suardi
2007-07-17 22:40           ` john stultz
2007-07-18 21:31             ` Alessandro Suardi

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