Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Dave Jones
2005-12-30T05:05:01Z

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:20:12PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
> ..
> >And tonight it appears to be working again (/proc/cpuinfo showing
> >correct values, something it was not doing when I first checked it
> >after upgrading to -rc7.. something buggy there??).
>
> Okay, I've tried a couple of reboots, and it's working fine tonight.
> Maybe it only fails when doing a public demo for Windows people?
> (as when it first failed).
>
> Leave it. If I can catch it again, I'll scream again then.

One thing that could explain it.. SMP kernels currently don't
report scaling correctly. It'll always show the boot frequency.
There's a fix for this in the cpufreq.git repo (and -mm)
that's going to Linus once 2.6.15 is out.

Dave