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From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [FALSE ALARM] Re: HPET (?) related hangs and breakage in 2.6.35,36
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:06:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101111110642.GN8917@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101110185031.GB13539@aftab>

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:50:31PM -0500, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> > > Clocksource: tsc unstable (delta = -34355296774 ns)
> > > Switching: to clocksource hpet
> > 
> > Please disregard -- this is a bug in nouveau (or drm) not hpet.  I'll
> > send a bug report to the maintainers.
> 
> Interesting! Joerg was complaining about similar symptoms with .36 today
> too.

The issue I have seen was on two boxes with 890FX chipset and Phenom II
X6 CPUs on a recent avi/master which was 2.6.36 + some kvm patches.

The problem was that the box became extremly sluggish and slow. I stated
dstat and it reported a lot of missed ticks. After some time the
clocksource tsc became unstable and the system became responsive again.
I have not yet investigated this further but can do any requested tests.

	Joerg

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 13:46 Andrew Lutomirski
2010-11-09 15:20 ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-09 15:38   ` Borislav Petkov
2010-11-09 17:44     ` Andrew Lutomirski
2010-11-09 18:01       ` Borislav Petkov
2010-11-09 21:29         ` Andrew Lutomirski
2010-11-10 18:48           ` [FALSE ALARM] " Andrew Lutomirski
2010-11-10 18:50             ` Borislav Petkov
2010-11-10 19:02               ` Andrew Lutomirski
2010-11-10 20:52                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-10 20:56                   ` Andrew Lutomirski
2010-11-10 20:58                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 11:06               ` Roedel, Joerg [this message]

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