On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 14:09 +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > > When running Ingo's 2.6.14-rt21 (and in fact rt kernels back to at least
> > > 2.6.13-rc days), the clock on my i915-based laptop runs slow. The degree
> > > of slowness appears directly related to how busy the machine is. If
> > > it is just sitting around doing very little the time is kept rather
> > > well. However, as soon as the load increases the RTC and system time
> > > diverge significantly. For example, running jackd for 2 minutes results
> > > in the system time loosing as much as 20 seconds compared to the CMOS RTC.
> > > Processes doing HDD I/O also seem to affect the system time similarly.
> > >
> > > Selectively disabling different timer-related kernel options does not make
> > > any difference. However, the clock seems fine under vanilla 2.6.14,
> > > suggesting an issue somewhere in the rt patches.
> >
> > Could you please send me your dmesg and the output of:
> >
> > cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/*
>
> First the contents of the above /sys/ files:
>
> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource:
> c3tsc
>
> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
> acpi_pm jiffies c3tsc pit
Odd. I'm not sure why the acpi_pm wasn't chosen by default if it was
available and the TSC fell back to the c3tsc. It might be something in
the -RT tree that's changed that bit. Could you try the following and
see if it doesn't resolve the timekeeping problems you're seeing?
echo "acpi_pm" > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
Still it sounds like something isn't right w/ either the c3tsc code or
the cpufreq notification code. Would you be willing to test further
patches?
Also could you try booting w/ idle=poll and see if that changes the
behavior?
Thanks for the testing and feedback!
-john
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