On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:38:48PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:18:02PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > > > > So I guess you guys never want this to be enabled on distro kernels ? > > > > If that's the case, can you add something to that effect in Kconfig ? > > > > > > I believe we want it to be enabled on distros in the long term. But > right now it would > > > be a bad idea until the off case (nohz_full= parameter empty) is > carefully optimized. > > > I'm currently working on that. > > > > > > Now for the unstable tsc, which is what it's about on the above code > block, we need > > > the tick to be there to leverage the sched clock madness. May be there > could be some > > > other solution that could work along full dynticks but for now we chose > the easy path. > > > > > > Are broken TSCs that common? > > > > I just hit one apparently. > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/25421/73907845/raw/ > > That's a fairly recent Atom board, so I suspect it's not uncommon on that > platform. > > And here's a Core Duo from circa 2008. > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/25429/13739098/raw > > Two for two so far. I get the feeling you guys are going to get a ton of > these reports.
Definetly, so it comforts me on the fact we need to remove the warning, which may be interpreted as the symptom of a bug to report while it's not. We need to warn the user but through another way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
