Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick for x86 version 050602-2

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Christian Hesse <mail@earthworm.de> [050602 23:09]:
> 
> The problems occured with enabled CONFIG_DYN_TICK_USE_APIC. As I recompiled 
> the kernel the following is without the option. Everything looks good so far 
> (except resume...), so I am not shure what caused the bad behavior.

OK, that's good to know.

> BTW, I can enable CONFIG_DYN_TICK_USE_APIC without CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC, is this 
> intended?

You're right, it should not be allowed. I'll make that a command
line option too for the next version.

> Software suspend still does not work, it hangs on resume. Any ideas what could 
> be the cause? I've applied these patches on top of 2.6.12-rc5:
> 
> 2.6.12-rc4-ck1
> software suspend 2.1.8.10
> reiser from 2.6.12-rc5-mm1
> ieee802.11 stack and ipw2100 1.1.0
> hostap 0.3.7
> shfs 0.35
> fbsplash 0.9.2-r2
> dyn-tick

I don't think it's the dyn-tick patch that causes it. Does the
resume work properly without the dyn-tick patch?

Tony