Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-08-15T01:37:58Z

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Can you reproduce it using plain swsusp?
>
> We probably need more carefull suspend/resume support on timer with dyntick
> enabled.
>
> With vanilla, timer just ticks on constant rate; no state to save.
> With dyntick, however...

Why not just set it to a fixed frequency, suspend and then on boot resume
to a fixed frequency and let the timer tick code eventually switch back.