Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: some more patches

Andi Kleen
2008-01-17T02:13:30Z

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 22:06:46 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > > truly stuck, or just an annoying message?
> >
> > Just annoying message; system works after that for simple login etc.
> > (haven't run anything complicated)
>
> ok, if you see no other failures and if you have some time it would be
> nice to figure out why that message is happening. Is NOHZ enabled
> perhaps?

I updated now to latest git-x86 and the problem seems to have gone away.

But NO_HZ was enabled yes and the system also had a very unsynchronous
TSC (dual K8 opteron with cpufreq)

Also I should say my patches were applied, but I didn't change
anything in this area.

-Andi