Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs

From: Vladimir B. Savkin
Date: Mon Oct 10 2005 - 13:12:41 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:03:24AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> >From your dmesg, it appears that there are no other timesources other
> then the TSC available on your hardware. So I'm guessing idle=poll is
> keeping the CPUs from halting the TSC and keeping them synched.
>
>
> I would think that the ACPI PM timer would be supported, but I don't see
> anything about it in your dmesg. Could you make sure it is properly
> configured in?

Yes, I tried different combinations of PM_TIMER and HPET options.
In this try, PM_TIMER was definetly enabled in kernel config.

What kind of kernel message did you expect from workibf PM timer?

~
:wq
With best regards,
Vladimir Savkin.

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