From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why do so many machines need "noapic"?
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:33:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E5D44A.5000201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070910194421.GA1819@one.firstfloor.org>
On 09/10/2007 03:44 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Yes, it has an hpet. And I tried every combination of options I could
>> think of.
>
>> But, even stranger, x86_64 works (only i386 fails.)
>
> x86-64 has quite different time code (at least until the dyntick patches
> currently in mm)
>
> Obvious thing would be to diff the boot messages and see if anything
> jumps out (e.g. in interrupt routing).
>
> Or check with mm and if x86-64 is broken there too then it's likely
> the new time code.
This is Fedora 8 and it already has the highres-timers code in x86_64.
But I was still comparing 2.6.22 on i386 to 2.6.23-rc5-git1 + highres-timers
on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc5 on i386 seems okay too, so whatever is happening it
only occurs on 2.6.22 here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 23:30 Why do so many machines need "noapic"? Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-06 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-07 19:34 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-08 5:17 ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-09-10 19:12 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-10 19:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-10 23:33 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-09-13 16:38 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-25 9:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-15 7:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 10:58 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-09-15 11:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 12:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-09-24 21:32 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-27 22:03 ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-15 18:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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2007-09-08 4:12 Al Boldi
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