Re: [patch 00/21] high resolution timers / dynamic ticks - V2

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> These patches make my Vaio run really really slowly.  Maybe a quarter of
> the normal speed or lower.  Bisection shows that the bug is introduced by
> clockevents-drivers-for-i386.patch+clockevents-drivers-for-i386-fix.patch
> 
> With all patches applied, the slowdown happens with
> CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n and also with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y &&
> CONFIG_NO_HZ=y.  So something got collaterally damaged.
> 
> I put various helpful stuff at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/x/

> I uploaded all the patches I was using to
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/x/patches/

That's basically the same set I have here +/- the fixups

> It doesn't seem to be a cpufreq thing: cpuinfo_min_freq=800kHz,
> cpuinfo_max_freq=2GHz and cpuinfo_cur_freq goes up to 2GHz under load. 
> Wall time is increasing at one second per second.

I retest on my Vaio.

	tglx


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