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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support
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    On Sunday 06 May 2007 21:58:47 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    > I'm pleased to announce the first cut of the final x86_64
    > highres/dyntick support, which I did based on Chris Wright's patch set,
    > which is again based on Arjan van de Ven's initial work:

    I've noticed a few problems with this patch series, which I manually (without
    difficulty) ported to 2.6.22-rc1.

    Firstly, the output of /proc/interrupts looks a bit strange. NO_HZ isn't
    enabled, just high resolution timers. HZ was set to 1000.

    alistair@damocles:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
    CPU0 CPU1
    0: 195 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
    1: 21 13698 IO-APIC-edge i8042
    8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
    9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
    14: 117 51178 IO-APIC-edge libata
    15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge libata
    18: 455 449373 IO-APIC-fasteoi lan-sky, EMU10K1
    19: 0 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi yenta, ohci1394
    20: 220 86188 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2
    21: 0 26 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
    22: 0 273 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv
    23: 928 507781 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv, lan
    NMI: 0 0
    LOC: 4723272 4797930
    ERR: 0

    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.

    Secondly, /proc/cpuinfo seems to be broken:

    alistair@damocles:~$ 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.

    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

    Of course, all of these problems might be PEBKAC, but I'm sceptical.

    Find the kernel config, updated patch (for 2.6.22-rc1), dmesg, contents
    of /proc/interrupts and /proc/cpuinfo here:

    http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/2.6.22-rc1-hrt/

    --
    Cheers,
    Alistair.

    Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
    1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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