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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:25:30 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:21:20AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Any update on this issue?
> 
> Borislav's patch solves the mysterious "slowdown" problem and is running
> without problems for the last two weeks here. 
> 
> (And rc2 is already out. So maybe it's time to push this to Linus so
> that more people have a chance to test it?)

Yep, we definitely need some kind of fix for this. It just triggered on
me on -rc3 (system became sluggish, everything advanced only after a
keypress along with the already familiar clocksource unstable message in
dmesg).

Thomas, want me to rebase the patch ontop of tip:master?

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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