Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:23:55 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.7-bk way too fast |
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:29:04PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >Something is definitely screwy with the latest -bk. > > I'm not seeing any troubles... > > [root:pts/11{4}]spork:~/[11:26 PM]:uname -a > Linux spork.troz.com 2.6.7-SMP+BK@1.1400 #15 SMP BK[20040618194307] Fri Jun > 18 15:56:38 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer. > > >My guess would be someone broke HPET, but maybe not judging from other > >lkml reports. > > It could be. All my systems have an HPET enabled kernel, but none of them > are actually reporting HPET as a timing source.
x86-64 has a different HPET driver than i386. And HPET is only used when present in the machine (so far only AMD chipsets), _and_ reported by the ACPI BIOS. Which is rather uncommon.
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