From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757614AbYILTQT (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:16:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755650AbYILTQK (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:16:10 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:44374 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755580AbYILTQJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:16:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:15:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Pavel Machek , kernel list , Linux-pm mailing list , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc6: nohz + s2ram = need to press keys to get progress In-Reply-To: <200809122117.05750.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <20080912083113.GA1625@elf.ucw.cz> <200809122117.05750.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 12 of September 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > The old "you have to press keys to get machine to progress" seems to > > be back :-(. Thinkpad x60. > > I guess the last bunch of HPET/clockevents patches caused that to happen. Guessing is hardly a good method to get down to the root cause of those problems. > We seem to be doing a "one step forward, one step back" thing here ... Well, the fixes for HPET/clockevents fix real bugs and there are no evident side effects vs. s2ram inside. quite the contrary. Thanks, tglx