From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754790AbYAQCNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:13:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751761AbYAQCNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:13:23 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48672 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751716AbYAQCNW (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:13:22 -0500 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: some more patches Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:35:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Jan Beulich , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , LKML , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <200801162159.50274.ak@suse.de> <20080116210646.GA11967@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080116210646.GA11967@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801162235.11076.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 16 January 2008 22:06:46 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen 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