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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:50:17 +0530
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
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Subject: Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:47:05PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:03:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > that sounds like a fundamental issue that really needs to be fixed
> > first!
> 
> It should be fixed by the patch here:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111556608901657&w=2

Actually, a solution to take care of sleeping CPUs was there quite some 
time back. The above patch only fixes a race in that solution.

Tony,
	Which kernel version did you see the slow bootup? 

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Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017