From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261542AbVHBOJd (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:09:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261539AbVHBOHJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:07:09 -0400 Received: from mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.189]:24244 "EHLO mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261541AbVHBOFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:05:44 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Avuton Olrich Subject: Re: [patch] i386 dynamic ticks 2.6.13-rc4 (code reordered) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:05:13 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, ck@vds.kolivas.org References: <200508021443.55429.kernel@kolivas.org> <3aa654a40508020701e605533@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3aa654a40508020701e605533@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508030005.13731.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:01, Avuton Olrich wrote: > OK, I rolled my own patch, 2.6.13-rc4-ck1-reiser4+this patch and it > appears to be running on my desktop Asus A7N8X very well: > > I am running with Local APIC/IO-APIC/APIC Timer and forceapic. Time > does not appear to be running slow, and I do not appear to have a slow > boot. Great! > sbh@rocket ~ $ cat /sys/devices/system/timer/timer0/dyn_tick_state > suitable: 1 > enabled: 1 > using APIC: 1 Tony as an aside, I notice I get much lower Hz values (less than half) on my P4 if I'm running without using APIC although everything appears to run stable in either configuration. Is this expected behaviour? Cheers, Con