Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer

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Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:09:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Or sata_nv/libata is to blame.

In case you are coming late to the thread:

I'm not.  Thus my comments refuting Lee's silly speculation.


Andi suggested:

   Yes, I bet something forgets to turn on interrupts again and it's
   picked up by (and blamed on) the next guy who does an unconditional
   sti, which happens to be __do_sofitrq or idle.

That sounds right to me.

Unlikely. More likely is a disabled interrupt period is longer than a tick period, or similar.

	Jeff


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