From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is it a timer bug?
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:09:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081215090925.7a8f5c6d@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7C8A4D3A9905B45A80E4C194793FA6501C51D1271@PDSMSX501.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:07:17 +0800
"Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:
> I notice the timer interrupts is quit high on the 2.6.28-rc8 kernel
> in my Nehalem machine. A, 180+/second timer interrupts in my Nehalem
> machine with tickless enable. B, the timer interrupts reduce to
> 10-/second with tickless and highres enable. On 2.6.27 kernel, the
> timer interrupts can keep low with tickless kernel whenever the
> highres feature is enable or not. So it is timer bug on my machine?
>
Hi,
can you give us the powertop output of these production Core i7
machines? That is the most likely way to get a clue about what is going
on...
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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2008-12-15 7:07 Shi, Alex
2008-12-15 8:09 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-12-15 8:19 ` Shi, Alex
2008-12-15 8:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
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