From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261620AbVHCW7R (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:59:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261619AbVHCW5A (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:57:00 -0400 Received: from mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.198]:42162 "EHLO mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261622AbVHCW4q (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:56:46 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Jim MacBaine Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:52:10 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com References: <200508031559.24704.kernel@kolivas.org> <200508040716.24346.kernel@kolivas.org> <3afbacad050803152226016790@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3afbacad050803152226016790@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508040852.10224.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:22 am, Jim MacBaine wrote: > On 8/3/05, Con Kolivas wrote: > > What happens when you disable it at runtime before suspending? > > > > echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/dyn_tick/dyn_tick0/enable > > This has no effect. The system stalls at exactly the same point. The > last lines on my screen are: Ok perhaps on the resume side instead. When trying to resume can you try booting with 'dyntick=disable'. Note this isn't meant to be a long term fix but once we figure out where the problem is we should be able to code around it. Cheers, Con