Xen does not support for now processor scaling at all, because a frequency
change it really difficult to handle. Think of how vmware virtual machine
timer works when processor scaling is enabled on a normal kernel.
The real problem is in the x86_64 part of the patch
debian/patches/features/all/
Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:
> I can confirm this problem with linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 on a Dell
> PowerEdge 6850 with Intel Xeon CPUs. It does not occur use the non-Xen
> kernel image (linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64).
>
> # uname -a
> Linux somehostname 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 21:48:12
I can confirm this problem with linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 on a Dell
PowerEdge 6850 with Intel Xeon CPUs. It does not occur use the non-Xen
kernel image (linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64).
# uname -a
Linux somehostname 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 21:48:12 UTC 2007
x86_64 GNU/Linux
# dmesg |
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