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From: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>,
	John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [BISECTED] 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (HPET)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:23:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8FF5DB.8000207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878w34qdu0.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>

> On 14 Sep 2010, Thomas Gleixner said:
>> Another question. If you add hpet=verbose (or revert that commit) does
>> the printk_once in hpet_set_next_event() show up in dmesg ?
>>
>>     "hpet: compare register read back failed."

Since adding back that extra read, the box here, which previously
was showing the symptoms every couple of days, has been ok; so i'm
now ~80% sure this change was indeed the cause. Nothing new in logs. 

$ dmesg | grep -i hpet 
ACPI: HPET 00000000bfee5dc0 00038 (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 00000098)
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
hpet clockevent registered
HPET: 4 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0, 0
hpet0: 4 comparators, 64-bit 14.318180 MHz counter
rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
$

artur

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-05  0:51 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (ACPI idle?) Nix
2010-09-06  5:32 ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-06 20:27   ` Nix
2010-09-07  5:36     ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-08 21:24   ` Nix
2010-09-08 21:35     ` John Drescher
2010-09-08 22:25       ` Nix
2010-09-09 22:34     ` [BISECTED] 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (HPET) Nix
2010-09-09 23:44       ` John Drescher
2010-09-09 23:57         ` Nix
2010-09-10  0:08           ` John Drescher
2010-09-10  0:14             ` John Drescher
2010-09-10  0:59       ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-10  5:36         ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-10  7:42         ` Nix
2010-09-10  7:47           ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-10  8:37           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-10  9:41             ` Jiri Slaby
2010-09-10 13:22               ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-10 20:13                 ` Nix
2010-09-10 20:12               ` Nix
2010-09-14 10:09             ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 20:17               ` Nix
2010-09-14 22:18                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 22:23                 ` Artur Skawina [this message]

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