Alistair, On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 02:17 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > I've noticed a few problems with this patch series, which I manually (without > difficulty) ported to 2.6.22-rc1.
There are a couple of fixups pending. I'm going to push out a new queue today. > Only 195 timer interrupts? I only see this on an AMD Opteron, it doesn't > occur > on an Intel Core 2 Duo. Mainline reports this counter regularly increasing > with or without the acpi_pm clocksource loaded. We stop the PIT when we switch to the local APICs. On your Intel box you might have deeper C-states which switch the system back to broadcast mode via PIT. > Secondly, /proc/cpuinfo seems to be broken: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz > cpu MHz : 210779.550 > cpu MHz : 210779.550 > > Unless my CPU is just under 80 times faster than it used to be, these numbers > are incorrect. I expect 2700.50, or something similar. cpufreq isn't compiled > in. Hmm. It seems the new TSC calibration routine is hosed. > Finally, and possibly related, the dmesg timestamps seem to be totally > broken. > Apparently my machine booted in less than 1 second, with the last messages > as: > > [ 0.607862] bridge: topology change detected, propagating > [ 0.607862] bridge: port 2(lan-sky) entering forwarding state > [ 0.830472] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones Hey, you have a really fast box :) tglx - 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/