Messages in this thread | | | From | kernel-stuff@comcast ... | Subject | Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:02:37 +0000 |
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I tried all the newer kernels including -ac. All have the same problem.
Andi - On a side note, your change "NVidia ACPI timer override" present in 2.6.9-ac8 breaks on my laptop - I get some NMI errors ("Do you have a unusual power management setup?") and DMA timeouts - happens regularly.
Parry.
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:02:55AM +0000, kernel-stuff@comcast.net wrote: > > > I have a X86_64 laptop (Compaq Presario R3240) with all BIOS updates in > place. I routinely get the "Warning : many lost ticks" message in dmesg. > > > > Known problem. ACPI uses a broken way to access the EC register, > > and VIA chipsets take extremly long for this operation. This > > happens regularly to read the system temperature. > > A fix is currently being discussed. > > It's an nforce3, do those also have a similar issue? I have similar > hardware and rarely see it, could you test a newer kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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