On Monday 28 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 22:55 +0200, Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > > > > I additionally built my 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 kernel without High Resolution > > > > Timer, but the high ping problem is still there. > > > > > > Hmm, that's mysterious. Wild guess is that highres exposes the hidden > > > "feature" in a different way than rc2-mm1 does. > > > > I think the bug in 2.6.21/22-rc3 is a different one that the one in > > 2.6.22-rc2-mm1, but that's also only a wild guess :) > > > > I'll explain this a bit: > > In 2.6.21/22-rc3 is the same b44 driver that has been in the stock > > kernels for some time. With this driver and High Resolution Timer turned > > on I get problems using iperf. The problems are that the systems becomes > > really slow and unresponsive. Michael Buesch thought this could be an > > IRQ storm which sounds logical to me. This bug did never happen to me > > before I startet the iperf test. > > Can you please apply > > http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc3/patch-2.6.22-rc3-hrt1.patch > > on top of rc3 and check, whether it has any effect on your problem. > The patch didn't change anything. > > The other issue happens only with 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 which includes the b44 > > ssb spilt. It's independed wether High Resolution Timer is turned on or > > off I always get very varying and high ping times. The iperf-test doesn't > > show the problems from 2.6.21/22-rc3. > > Neither with nor without highres ? Yes, it doesn't matter if highres is turned on or off. iperf never showed the problem from 2.6.21/22-rc3. Maxi
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