Re: AMD64: timer is running twice as fast as it should (again??)

[Enrico Scholz]

Mark Nipper <nipsy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> with 2.6 kernels, the timer on AMD64 runs exactly twice as fast as
>> expected. E.g. 'sleep 10' returns after 5 seconds external time.
>> 
>> This behavior was seen with Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and
>> 2.6.10-rc3-bk13 (both x86_64 mode).
>> 
>> System information can be found at
>>                 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/hw/amd64
>
> 	Seem like something specific to Fedora or the bk branch
> then because I'm running 2.6.10-rc3 under x86_64 and it sleeps as
> long as it should.

Thanks for your testing but I can reproduce it both with vanilla 2.6.9
and 2.6.10-rc3. The used .config can be found at

          http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/hw/amd64/config.txt




Enrico
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/