nmi_watchdog killing tickless feature

Hi Please CC me on reply, i am not subscribed to list. I did small test, and notice that if nmi_watchdog is enabled mpstat 1 06:11:00 CPU %user %nice%sys %iowait%irq %soft %steal %idleintr/s 06:11:01 all0.000.000.000.000.000.000.00 100.00

HSM violation errors

I'm seeing errors in dmesg and the like. It appears to be somewhat similar to the issue reported here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/8/25/164711 except that my machine doesn't freeze, and everything seems normal -- hopefully nothing like silent corruption is going on. Also i

volanoMark 24% regression in 2.6.24-rc6: why a simple patch makes it

With kernel 2.6.24-rc6, volanoMark has much regression. 1) On 8-core stoakley: 17%; 2) On 16-core tigerton: 24%. I bisected it down to patch fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9. It is to fix the bad cpu number in /proc/cpuinfo. As a matter of fact, this issue is already fixed by other 2 patc

2 ports could not bond to a aggregator in 802.3ad mode issue

I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the list in response to my posting. I have 2 ports(eth0, eth1) in my device. I use kernel(2.6.23) bonding driver v3.1.3 (June 13, 2007) to bond 2 ports to one aggregator and use the following commands to setup the environment: insmo

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