Re: [patch] Re: nohz and strange sleep latencies

2007-11-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Okay, so the problem seems to be we are using unreliable lapic > timer... which is stopped in C3 (and in C2 on broken machines). > > I do not see any mechanism to disable lapic; there seems to be some > mechanism to work around stopped lapic time

[patch] Re: nohz and strange sleep latencies

2007-11-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Okay, so the problem seems to be we are using unreliable lapic timer... which is stopped in C3 (and in C2 on broken machines). I do not see any mechanism to disable lapic; there seems to be some mechanism to work around stopped lapic timer is used (in acpi/processor_idle.c) but it does not se