Re: 2.6.1 "clock preempt"?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Tuesday 27 of January 2004 22:30, markus reichelt wrote:
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> timothy parkinson <t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Running with SpeedStep (this is a cpu thing i assume?) could cause
> > this. * Not having DMA enabled on your hard disk(s) could cause this. 
> > See the hdparm utility to enable it.
> > * Incorrect TSC synchronization on SMP systems could cause this.
> > * Anything else?
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> Yepp:
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> Jan 27 20:12:12 tatooine kernel: Losing too many ticks!
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> I had to set "CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL=y" in my .config in order to get
> it working.

How's that possible?
This config option only exports HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl to user-space.

--bart

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