Re: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix?

Lee Revell
2006-10-31T00:14:12Z

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:03 +0000, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:23 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Can you give us a full dmesg without noapic or notsc please?
> >
>
> yes , I send an dmesg of 2.6.18-git20, dmesg27
> and other dmesg of kernel 2.6.18.1, dmesg30
> To vanilla kernel I just add this patch:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc1/2.6.19-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-pci-pci-via-irq-quirk-behaviour-change.patch
>
> > Adding Suresh to cc too because he spotted a similar problem last
> > time.
>
> Feel free to ask any test, test patches or even access to this machine.

Maybe I've been running -rt for too long but I don't see clocksource
selection - does 2.6.18 not have John Stultz's GTOD rework?

How can it know not to use TSC on machines where it's unstable?

Lee