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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: tickless scheduling
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:12:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273540344.3843.101.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimnlZYonxKzfGHZTV8vwaDptOPHEPBjNhwnV55Y@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 20:59 -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 1. Network file transfers and fscks stop on Toshiba netbook unless
> >> system receives external events
> >
> > Can you provide /proc/timer_list output?
> 
> Attached, but again, this is from the system running with tickless disabled.

Is it possible to boot with the kernel showing the issue and provide the
details?


> > I assume booting with nohz=off from grub resolves the issue?
> 
> Didn't know about the boot-time option (thanks for pointing it out),
> but I wanted to build a custom kernel anyway, so i did so and disabled
> tickless.

Ok. It may still be of value to know booting with nohz=off does avoid
the problem.


thanks
-john


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11  0:18 PROBLEM: tickless scheduling Donald Allen
2010-05-11  0:27 ` Robert Hancock
2010-05-11  0:34   ` Donald Allen
2010-05-11  0:38     ` Robert Hancock
2010-05-11  0:53       ` Donald Allen
2010-05-11  0:54 ` john stultz
2010-05-11  0:59   ` Donald Allen
2010-05-11  1:12     ` john stultz [this message]
2010-05-11  1:52       ` Donald Allen
2010-05-12 19:54         ` Donald Allen
2010-05-12 20:52           ` john stultz
2010-05-15 17:11             ` Donald Allen
2010-05-16 16:14               ` Stefan Biereigel
2010-05-16 20:41                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-17 15:26                 ` Donald Allen
2010-05-17 16:15                   ` Stefan Biereigel
2010-05-16 23:36               ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-17 13:44                 ` Donald Allen
2010-05-17 14:02                   ` Donald Allen
2010-05-17 14:04                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-17 14:11                     ` Donald Allen
2010-05-17 14:29                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-17 14:45                         ` Donald Allen

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