Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Test patch for ATI/Nvidia timer problems

From: René Rebe
Date: Sun Nov 27 2005 - 09:03:12 EST


Hi,

On Sunday 27 November 2005 14:53, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:14:53AM +0100, Ren? Rebe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Saturday 26 November 2005 15:20, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Everybody who saw timing problems with ATI IXP based boards with x86-64
> > > or some Nvidia NForce4 boards please test this patch. Please send
> > > success/failure to me.
> >
> > I try to give your patch a try on the ATI based MSI Megabook S270, today -
> > however even with the workaround of "noapic" I had timer drift on resuem from
> > ram if the cpu was scaled to a lower frequency when it was suspended.
>
> But it worked properly before suspend/resume without noapic?

Without noapic the timer has about the 2x speed compared to real-time. I
only used the machien with noapic since otherwise it is barely useful.

Did you want to know if suspend/resume does behave differently without noapic?

Yours,

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