On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:11 +0530, Anant Nitya wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007 03:28:46 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > Ok, that's consistent with earlier reports. The problem surfaces when
> > one of the SMT-"cpus" goes idle. The problem goes away when you disable
> > hyperthreading.
> Yes with HT disabled in BIOS there is no local_softirq_pending messages. BTW
> why does this problem persist only with X ?
No idea. I uploaded a debug patch against 2.6.22-rc1 to
http://www.tglx.de/private/tglx/2.6.22-rc1-hrt-debug.patch
Can you give it a try and report the output ?
> > When you apply the ratelimit patch, does the softlockup problem
> > persist ?
> >
> Yes, though softlockup is rare and mostly hit when system is under high load.
> Apart of that I am also getting following messages consistently across
> multiple boot cycles with NOHZ=y and ratelimit patch applied.
>
> May 15 11:51:22 rudra kernel: [ 2594.341068] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta =
> 28111260302 ns)
> May 15 11:51:22 rudra kernel: [ 2594.343194] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has
> been installed.
That's informal. The TSC is detected to be unstable and replaced by the
pm timer. Nothing to worry about. It happens with NOHZ=n as well,
right ?
tglx
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