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SubjectRe: nohz and strange sleep latencies
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> > > and send us the output? (Enabling CONFIG_TIMER_STATS,
> > > CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS would maximize the amount
> > > of information.)
> >
> > This was w/o hpet=disable . Do you want me to test with hpet=disable?
>
> no, this is fine. You've got a hpet clockevents driver and two lapic
> drivers:
>
> Clock Event Device: hpet
> set_next_event: hpet_legacy_next_event
> set_mode: hpet_legacy_set_mode
> event_handler: tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast
>
> Clock Event Device: lapic
> set_next_event: lapic_next_event
> set_mode: lapic_timer_setup
> event_handler: hrtimer_interrupt
>
> Clock Event Device: lapic
> set_next_event: lapic_next_event
> set_mode: lapic_timer_setup
> event_handler: hrtimer_interrupt
>
> to me this has the feeling of lapic breakage in C2 mode. Does it get any
> better if you boot with 'nolapic'? (but that might in turn turn off
> high-res timers and nohz in essence) Thomas, any ideas?

Hmm, lapic is considered unstable in c2 by default. You have to tell
the kernel that you trust it in C2 on the command line.

/me goes back to read the logs

tglx
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