Re: sleepy linux self-test

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2008-01-30 17:35:11, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > This version should work, at least it did not fail in my testing. It 
> > does one test 5 second after bootup, then periodically once per 500 
> > seconds. Different parameters are trivial to tweak.
> 
> nice - is nohz=off still needed? (if not, what was the problem with 
> nohz?)

Not needed, but I do not know where the nohz problem was. Waiting 5
seconds means userspace comes up and problem is somehow worked around.

The nohz problem was of the "you need to press keys to get forward
progress" -- the kind I tried to debug few times already :-(.
									Pavel
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