RE: stall during boot on x86-64.

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Jones
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:22 PM
>To: Linux Kernel
>Subject: stall during boot on x86-64.
>
>When I boot my EM64T, I get a slight noticable pause
>really early on in boot.  Booting with 'time'
>shows an interesting artifact.
>
>Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
>console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0 time
>kernel profiling enabled (shift: 1)
>[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
>[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes)
>[    0.000000] time.c: Using 14.318180 MHz HPET timer.
>[    0.000000] time.c: Detected 2793.081 MHz processor.
>[   27.449661] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>[   28.484309] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 
>8, 1048576 bytes)
>[   28.506519] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 
>7, 524288 bytes)
>[   28.539543] Memory: 1014240k/1047080k available (2490k 
>kernel code, 32456k reserved, 1664k data, 236k init)
>
>Note the jump in the time value..

May be this is just the origin of time as far as kernel is concerned.
No?

Thanks,
Venki
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