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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Erick Turnquist <jhujhiti@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:19:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050807161902.GX8266@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <080720051429.26355.42F61ABC0005F4BA000066F3220699849900009A9B9CD3040A029D0A05@comcast.net>

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:29:16PM +0000, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels
> > by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000.
> 
> John Stultz's timeofday patches seem to fix this lost ticks issue.  You might want to try them.
> 
> (I too, routinely get "lost ticks - rip is at acpi_processor_idle" messages which vanished during the period when I was trying John's patches.)

They will just hide the problem in this case.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-07 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-07 14:29 Lost Ticks on x86_64 Parag Warudkar
2005-08-07 16:19 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
     [not found] <5348b8ba050806204453392f7f@mail.gmail.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-07 11:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-07 17:07   ` Erick Turnquist
2005-08-07 17:48   ` Tim Hockin
2005-08-07 18:46     ` Erick Turnquist
2005-08-07 20:14       ` Tim Hockin
2005-08-08 12:01     ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-08 16:47       ` Tim Hockin
2005-08-08 16:51         ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-08 18:09       ` Lee Revell
2005-08-07 18:51   ` Lee Revell
2005-08-07 20:04     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-08-07 21:24     ` Tim Hockin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-07  3:44 Erick Turnquist

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