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
next prev parent 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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