Re: [osol-code] current_cstate greater than supported_max_cstates

2010-10-16 Thread Albert Lee
supported_max_cstates shows the count of supported C-states (in this case 1 and 3?), not the actual C-state number, according to https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7884 -Albert ___ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris

Re: [osol-code] current_cstate greater than supported_max_cstates

2010-10-16 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 21:49 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garr...@damore.org] > > > > TBH, This requires significant investigation, and probably nobody with > > sufficient skill has enough time, or vice versa. :-) > > > > File a bug so it doesn't get lost. On

Re: [osol-code] current_cstate greater than supported_max_cstates

2010-10-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garr...@damore.org] > > TBH, This requires significant investigation, and probably nobody with > sufficient skill has enough time, or vice versa. :-) > > File a bug so it doesn't get lost. On www.illumos.org, too, please. I'll try illumos ... But ... Where would

Re: [osol-code] current_cstate greater than supported_max_cstates

2010-10-15 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 21:36 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: opensolaris-code-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > > code-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > No responses? Not even to this part? Anybody out there??? ;-) > TBH, This requires significa

Re: [osol-code] current_cstate greater than supported_max_cstates

2010-10-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: opensolaris-code-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > code-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey No responses? Not even to this part? Anybody out there??? ;-) > Is this mailing list a good place to reach out to kernel developers, or > whoever would be appro

[osol-code] current_cstate greater than supported_max_cstates

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Correct me if I'm wrong, but current_cstate should never be greater than supported_max_cstates, right? There are a lot of reports out there, of systems crashing, due to problems with cstate, and generally people go into BIOS and disable cstates. Call it a "workaround." But it would be nice if