Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2007 20:06:52 -0400 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: 24 lost ticks with 2.6.20.10 kernel |
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On 5/1/07, Kok, Auke <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote: > Michel Lespinasse wrote: > > (I've added the E1000 maintainers to the thread as I found the issue > > seems to go away after I compile out that driver. For reference, I was > > trying to figure out why I lose exactly 24 ticks about every two > > seconds, as shown with report_lost_ticks. This is with a DQ965GF > > motherboard with onboard E1000). > > that's perfectly likely. The main issue is that we read the hardware stats every > two seconds and that can consume quite some time. It's strange that you are > losing that many ticks IMHO, but losing one or two might very well be. >
Why do you have to disable all interrupts? Shouldn't it be sufficient to disable interrupts on the e1000 only?
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