Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:30:19 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 - time moving at 3x speed! |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 18 August 2006 01:15, john stultz wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 00:44 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: >> >>> I got 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 going, and it appears that system >>> moves at about 3x normal speed. A software clock need 3 >>> seconds to advance 10 seconds, for example. >>> >>> Everything else seems faster too, the keyboard autorepeat, >>> delay loops in games, and so on. >>> >>> Guess I could live with this, if it'd also compile >>> 3x faster. :-/ >>> >>> This is a x86-64 kernel, with the jiffies hotfix applied. >>> >> Sounds like the same issue Gregorie Favre is dealing with. >> >> Please send full dmesg output. >> >> Does 2.6.18-rc4, or 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 have this issue >> > > FWIW i looked through the x86-64 patch changes between > rc3-mm2 and rc4-mm1 and I can't find anything that would be remotely > related to the timer. > > If it's confirmed to have regressed in this time it would require a binary > search to track down I think. > I have narrowed it down. 2.6.18-rc4 does not have the 3x time problem, while mm1 have it. mm1 without the hotfix jiffies patch is just as bad.
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