Re: 2.6.14-rc5 (i386) + TSC, how to disable? time drift

[Vladimir Lazarenko <vlad@lazarenko.net>]

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> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 03:13 +0200, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>To continue on my struggle with Dual-core - another interesting issue 
>>popped up: time drift.
>>
>>SMP is enabled, TSC is enabled.
> 
> 
> It looks like you have ACPI PM and HPET enabled in the kernel, so it
> appears your system does not support alternative clocksources. 
> 
> You can check to see if a updated BIOS that makes ACPI PM or HPET
> available to the OS has been released, or request one from your hardware
> vendor.
> 
> You might want to try idle=poll as well.

Thank you john. So far, idle=poll seemed to help, partially.
The time doesn't go backwards for now, it only occasionally skips a 
second, every 2-3 minutes. Is that normal? Not that I have been watching 
seconds very closely at any previous moment, so I can't say if it has 
ever happened before.

And I dont' know if this question can be addressed to you, but can you 
say something about those /proc/interrupts? Why don't I see any 
interrupts except LOC being handled by 2nd CPU core?

Thanks in advance!

Vladimir

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