On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:59:24 +1000 Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is the dynamic ticks patch for i386 as written by Tony Lindgen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Tuukka Tikkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > Patch for 2.6.13-rc5 One issue (tested the -rc4 Version on -mm): - on interrupt flood (ping -f) HZ goes down to 0-4 HZ. This matches "ticks to skip" below. Coincidence? - ping -f complains: .Warning: time of day goes back (-304us), taking countermeasures. ... .Warning: time of day goes back (-33us), taking countermeasures. Yet, system time _seems_ to be kept correctly. CPU is Pentium M. dmesg: Using pmtmr for high-res timesource dyn-tick: Found suitable timer: pmtmr dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 54 dyn-tick: Timer not enabled during boot sysfs: suitable: 1 enabled: 1 using APIC: 0 Regards - 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/
