Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tsc clock issues with dual core and question about irq balancing | From | john stultz <> | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:14:32 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 01:07 -0800, Adrian Yee wrote: > Hi John, > > >> I'm currently testing the system with "nosmp noapic acpi=off > >> clock=tsc" (it was losing interrupts and wouldn't boot properly > >> with apic/acpi on) and so far everything seems to work (this > >> includes ssh and desktop usage is better). > > > > So keeping the above settings, does removing just the "clock=tsc" > > cause the sluggishness to appear? > > I just tried booting with the pmtmr enabled and incoming ssh is bad > (I had an ls pause for over 20 seconds, while another connection was > somewhat fine). I wish I had more concrete tests since the problems > I'm seeing are so subjective. I guess I'll have to ignore this > problem until I get a better test.
>From your dmesg, you're still running w/ smp, apic, acpi as well. I was curious if you could run just as you had before without issue using "nosmp noapic acpi=off clock=tsc", only drop the clock=tsc bit.
I just want to be sure we're only changing one variable at a time. :)
> > Also would you open a bugzilla bug on this and attach your .config > > and dmesg? > > Done: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5740
Thanks for filling that out! I'll see if I cannot reproduce anything similar using your config.
thanks again, -john
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