Re: 2.6.14-rt13

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 06:19:32 EST



* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just had a short burst of key repeats and saw one random screen
> blank. Right now everything seems normal but I was not allucinating
> :-)

btw., today i have experienced a 'key repeat' event with the stock FC4
SMP kernel too, on an X2 athlon. That kernel didnt have idle=poll
specified, so gettimeofday() could time-warp in substantial ways.

so i'd say the 'key repeat' problem is almost certainly caused by TSC
"time warps" on X2's.

Ingo
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