Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I don't think it's HPET timer, or CONFIG_SMP. It also looks like your
> local APIC timer is working.
> 
> If you have a serial console, you can put one letter printks in the
> code. Can you check if you ever get to smp_apic_timer_interrupt()?
> That's where you should get to after the sleep, and that calls the
> PIT timer interrupt to get it going again. I'm thinking that you'll
> get to smp_apic_timer_interrupt(), but once therebut function
> dyn_tick->interrupt(0, NULL, regs) never gets called.

dyn_tick->interrupt *is* being called:

Feb  2 14:53:41 amd last message repeated 36 times
Feb  2 14:53:41 amd postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail
system
Feb  2 14:53:41 amd kernel: dyn_tick->interrupt
Feb  2 14:53:41 amd kernel: dyn_tick->interrupt
Feb  2 14:53:41 amd postfix/master[1301]: daemon started -- version
2.1.5
Feb  2 14:53:41 amd kernel: dyn_tick->interrupt
Feb  2 14:53:45 amd last message repeated 30 times
Feb  2 14:53:45 amd log1n[1220]: ROOT LOGIN on `tty8'
Feb  2 14:53:45 amd kernel: dyn_tick->interrupt
Feb  2 14:54:16 amd last message repeated 228 times

I'll try turning off CONFIG_PREEMPT...
								Pavel
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