Re: [BISECTED] 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdownto unusability (HPET)

From: Damien Wyart
Date: Fri Sep 10 2010 - 01:36:10 EST


> On 09/10/10 00:34, Nix wrote:
> > It did: I found a system on which the fault was consistently
> > reproducible. Bisected.

Thanks for doing this! Nice work!

* Artur Skawina <art.08.09@xxxxxxxxx> [2010-09-10 02:59]:
> I'm seeing this too, except here it happens every couple of days of uptime,
> lasts for a few minutes, and then goes away. Which made bisecting a bit
> impractical... Thank you for doing it.
> HW is similar; x64 and X58/82801JI/ICH10, tsc clocksrc.
> Did that printk trigger? Empirically confirming that this is the problem
> could take weeks here, as it happens so rarely...

Same here, I have not yet seen the problem with 2.6.35.4 and a max
uptime of 3 or 4 days.

My details are identical: tsc clocksource, x86-64 and X58/82801JI/ICH10.

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Damien
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