* Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i think it's the UP vs. SMP difference. We are chasing some SMP
> > latencies right now that trigger on boxes that have deeper C sleep
> > states. idle=poll seems to work around those problems.
>
> well C-states do cause latencies... as advertized in the
> /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power file.
no, this is a plain logic bug somewhere, not a hardware latency.
Sometimes the latency is in the seconds range, etc.
Ingo
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