From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932153AbVHRJ7x (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:59:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932155AbVHRJ7x (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:59:53 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:62139 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932153AbVHRJ7w (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:59:52 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt3 From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200508181057.30828.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> References: <20050816121843.GA24308@elte.hu> <200508181057.30828.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: linutronix Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:00:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1124359214.23647.320.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alistair, On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:57 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > The problem I'm having is that when the kernel probes my IDE devices it slows > down, taking ages to complete the probe. Henceforth the kernel seems to work > at a slower speed doing just about anything (compiling, etc.), but > interactive performance is okay. It's a bizarre problem. > > Of course, I assumed this was due to the latest timer changes, and so I > disabled CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS and went back to CONFIG_HPET_TIMER. > This works perfectly. Can you please send me your .config which shows the problem ? tglx