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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: discuss@x86-64.org
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de>
Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:14:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701090014.42144.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070108223355.GI6167@stusta.de>


> We just got a completely different bug reported that was confirmed to be 
> caused by Andi's patch:
>    AMD64/ATI : timer is running twice as fast as it should [1]

I have such a machine that showed this problem and when I wrote the patch I 
tested it on it (and on a couple of others of course). No twice as fast on 
my testing.

In fact there are two types of ATI machines: ones that have a BIOS workaround
for the original Linux issue and ones that don't. Keeping both
happy is not easy.

So I'm somewhat dubious on that. Where is that report?

> 
> My whole point is that for 2.6.20, we can live with simply reverting 
> Andi's commit.

I agree. It's more problematical than I expected. Reverting is 
the best option right now.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5986589C150B2F49A46483AC44C7BCA490733F@ssvlexmb2.amd.com>
2007-01-03  6:23 ` 2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions - x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work" Yinghai Lu
2007-01-08  0:55   ` Tobias Diedrich
2007-01-08  1:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-08 15:49       ` [PATCH 1/4] x86_64 io_apic: Implement remove_pin_to_irq Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 15:53         ` PATCH 2/4] x86_64 io_apic: Implement irq_from_pin Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 15:56           ` [PATCH 3/4] x86_64 io_apic: Implment update_irq0_entry Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 16:11             ` [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 20:21               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 21:45                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-08 22:33                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 22:57                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-08 23:14                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-01-08 23:21                       ` [discuss] " Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 23:18                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-09 22:00               ` Tobias Diedrich

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