Re: [PATCH 0/13] Time: Generic Timeofday Subsystem (v B10)

john stultz
2005-11-14T23:25:25Z

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:07 -0700, Frank Sorenson wrote:
> >>john stultz wrote:
> >>>Hmm... Not sure if this is mis-calibration or just bad-interaction w/
> >>>kthrt. Mind sending a dmesg to me?
>
> Okay, the c3tsc clock drift is definitely not an interaction with kthrt.
> Here is 2.6.14-mm2 + the TOD B10 patches:
> 14 Nov 15:54:52 offset: -0.003031 drift: -3091.0 ppm
> 14 Nov 15:55:52 offset: -0.184073 drift: -3018.57377049 ppm
> 14 Nov 15:56:52 offset: -0.345268 drift: -2853.95041322 ppm
> 14 Nov 15:57:53 offset: -0.463002 drift: -2544.2967033 ppm
> 14 Nov 15:58:53 offset: -0.587743 drift: -2428.93801653 ppm
>
> Running just 2.6.14-mm2 + TOD B10, I seem to be unable to reproduce the
> Badness errors, and the clocksource has not frozen at one setting.
>
> I can provide a dmesg if needed.

Hrm.. How about sending a dmesg of just vanilla 2.6.14-mm2? Also does
the behavior change booting w/ idle=poll ?

Thanks so much for the problem report and testing, btw!
-john