Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:41:37 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: phenom, amd780g, tsc, hpet, kvm, kernel -- who's at fault? |
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* Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Now, after quite some googling around, I tried to disable hpet, > booting with hpet=disable parameter. And that one fixed all the > problems at once. 7 days uptime, I stress-tested it several times, > it works with TSC as timesource (still a problem within guests as > those shows unstable TSC anyway) since boot, no issues logged. > Even cpufreq works as expected... > > Note that i tried to disable hpet as clocksource several times but > without any noticeable effect - kernel still used hpet and hpet2 > for something, and printed that scary "increasing min_delay" > message on a semi-regular basis usually after the next 'stuck' > state....
It could again go bad like it did before - those messages are signs of HPET weirdnesses.
Probably your box's hpet needs to be blacklisted, so that it gets disabled automatically on bootup.
Ingo
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