On Friday 11 May 2007 03:28:46 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Ok, that's consistent with earlier reports. The problem surfaces when > one of the SMT-"cpus" goes idle. The problem goes away when you disable > hyperthreading. Yes with HT disabled in BIOS there is no local_softirq_pending messages. BTW why does this problem persist only with X ?
> When you apply the ratelimit patch, does the softlockup problem > persist ? > Yes, though softlockup is rare and mostly hit when system is under high load. Apart of that I am also getting following messages consistently across multiple boot cycles with NOHZ=y and ratelimit patch applied. May 15 11:51:22 rudra kernel: [ 2594.341068] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 28111260302 ns) May 15 11:51:22 rudra kernel: [ 2594.343194] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
