Re: stall during boot on x86-64.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 08:13:55 EST


On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:23:29AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > >[ 0.000000] time.c: Detected 2793.081 MHz processor.
> > >[ 27.449661] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > >[ 28.484309] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order:
> > >8, 1048576 bytes)
> > >[ 28.506519] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order:
> > >7, 524288 bytes)
> > >[ 28.539543] Memory: 1014240k/1047080k available (2490k
> > >kernel code, 32456k reserved, 1664k data, 236k init)
> > >
> > >Note the jump in the time value..
> >
> > May be this is just the origin of time as far as kernel is concerned.
> > No?
>
> It is. Before that the timer interrupt doesn't run and jiffies won't
> increase.

Makes sense now. After sleeping on it, I think the stall I see
is caused by framebuffer console. I'll poke some more at it
this evening.

Dave

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