From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932470AbWG3V5K (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:57:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932468AbWG3V5K (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:57:10 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:42762 "EHLO mail.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932418AbWG3V5J (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:57:09 -0400 Date: 30 Jul 2006 23:57:05 +0200 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:57:05 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Matthias Urlichs Cc: Andrew Morton , john stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, bunk@stusta.de, lethal@linux-sh.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, asit.k.mallick@intel.com Subject: Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs Message-ID: <20060730215705.GA90965@muc.de> References: <20060723044637.3857d428.akpm@osdl.org> <20060723120829.GA7776@kiste.smurf.noris.de> <20060723053755.0aaf9ce0.akpm@osdl.org> <1153756738.9440.14.camel@localhost> <20060724171711.GA3662@kiste.smurf.noris.de> <20060724175150.GD50320@muc.de> <1153774443.12836.6.camel@localhost> <20060730020346.5d301bb5.akpm@osdl.org> <20060730201005.GA85093@muc.de> <20060730211359.GZ3662@kiste.smurf.noris.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060730211359.GZ3662@kiste.smurf.noris.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > At least the different CPU speed issue is a known bug, fixed by a > BIOS update. That will likely fix your problem without changing the kernel. Please try it. > I'll postpone that until we have a working kernel fix, > for obvious reasons. What are the obvious reasons? -Andi