On Friday 07 October 2005 14:26, Vladimir B. Savkin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:16:43PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > This patch should resolve the issue seen in bugme bug #5105, where it
> > is assumed that dualcore x86_64 systems have synced TSCs. This is not
> > the case, and alternate timesources should be used instead.
> >
> > For more details, see:
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105
>
> I too have a box that shows the symptoms from bugzilla entry above.
> The system is Asus A8V Deluxe MB with
> "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+".
>
> The patch below did not fix the problem, while "idle=poll" did.
> Hope this helps, dmesg attached.
Are you running the latest BIOS?
-Andi
>
> > Please consider for inclusion in your tree.
> >
> > thanks
> > -john
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
> > --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
> > @@ -959,9 +959,6 @@ static __init int unsynchronized_tsc(voi
> > are handled in the OEM check above. */
> > if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
> > return 0;
> > - /* All in a single socket - should be synchronized */
> > - if (cpus_weight(cpu_core_map[0]) == num_online_cpus())
> > - return 0;
> > #endif
> > /* Assume multi socket systems are not synchronized */
> > return num_online_cpus() > 1;
>
> ~
>
> :wq
>
> With best regards,
> Vladimir Savkin.
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